{"id":1797,"date":"2013-04-05T09:30:07","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T01:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2013-04-08T10:46:51","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T02:46:51","slug":"lights-have-entered-us-jeffrey-yang-on-time-of-grief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1797","title":{"rendered":"‘Lights Have Entered Us’: Jeffrey Yang on Time of Grief"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New Directions editor Jeffrey Yang has a piece at The Atlantic<\/em><\/a> about George Oppen & Time of Grief: Mourning Poems<\/em><\/a>, an assemblage of international poetry he recently edited. Here’s how Atlantic <\/em>writer Joe Fassler describes the book:<\/p>\n

The new poetry anthology Time of Grief: Mourning Poems<\/em> is an unusual, inventive take on a familiar subject: It explores grief in its various shades and incarnations. Structured like a calendar over a span of 49 days\u2014a traditional mourning period in some Buddhist and Judaic traditions\u2014the book includes a diverse sequence of poems written in more than 20 countries. With authors ranging from an 11th-century Chinese poet to Tomas Transtr\u00f6mer, the Swedish winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature, Time of Grief<\/em> presents human bereavement in unprecedented scale and scope.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Xi Chuan’s poem “Twilight” \u66ae\u8272 is included in the anthology. Click here or on the image above to read the piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Directions editor Jeffrey Yang has a piece at The Atlantic about George Oppen & Time of Grief: Mourning Poems, an assemblage of international poetry he recently edited. Here’s how Atlantic writer Joe Fassler describes the book: The new poetry … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[13,3,16,7],"tags":[1029,45,1030,258,1654],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-sZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2257,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2257","url_meta":{"origin":1797,"position":0},"title":"Lucien Stryk Prize Acceptance Speech","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"October 28, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Someone was impressed enough by my acceptance speech for the Lucien Stryk prize to suggest I share it here. 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