{"id":2122,"date":"2013-07-24T09:30:28","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T01:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2122"},"modified":"2013-07-23T10:43:16","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T02:43:16","slug":"pen-translation-grants-for-chinese-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2122","title":{"rendered":"PEN Translation Grants for Chinese Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"PEN<\/a><\/div>\n

The PEN\/Heim Translation Fund has announced its 2013 winners<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Fund\u2019s Advisory Board are: Susan Bernofsky, Barbara Epler, Richard Sieburth, Lauren Wein, Eliot Weinberger, Natasha Wimmer, Matvei Yankelevich, and chair Michael F. Moore.<\/div>\n
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Special congrats to:<\/div>\n
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Chloe Garcia Roberts<\/strong>\u00a0for her translation of\u00a0Escalating Derangements of My Contemporaries<\/em>\u00a0by the 9th century Classical Chinese poet\u00a0Li Shangyin<\/strong>. Garcia Roberts\u2019 translation of these spare, immediate poem-lists is lyrical and intuitive. (To be published by New Directions<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not Poor: Indications<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Thoroughbreds sighing.<\/em>
\nWax tears on candles.<\/em>
\nChestnut shells.<\/em>
\nLychee husks.<\/em>
\nStacks and heaps of money, rice.<\/em>
\nMother of pearl hairpins, abandoned.<\/em>
\nJargon of orioles, swallows.<\/em>
\nEddies of fallen blossoms.<\/em>
\nSongs sung atop a tall building.<\/em>
\nBooks read aloud.<\/em>
\nSounds of grinding medicine, rolling tea.<\/em><\/p>\n

\nEleanor Goodman<\/strong>\u00a0for\u00a0Something Crosses My Mind<\/em>, selected poems of\u00a0Wang Xiaoni<\/strong>. Xiaoni\u2019s sharp apprehensions of daily life have made her, since the 1970s, one of China’s most influential poets. Goodman\u2019s pitch-perfect translation makes Xiaoni\u2019s work available for the first time in book form in English. (To be published by Zephyr Press<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Typhoon, No. 1<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The night of the typhoon, the sky was full, the world destroyed.<\/em><\/p>\n

From west to east, herds of black cattle rolled on their heads<\/em>
\nthe wind\u2019s hoofs beat at the windows<\/em>
\neverything on the ground rose to the sky.<\/em><\/p>\n

The people were packed into the night<\/em>
\nthe night was packed into an exploding drum.<\/em>
\nThe wildly arrogant air<\/em>
\npresented rolling tanks from another world.<\/em>
\nThere was no sign of resistance<\/em>
\nthat’s just the way the extraordinary happens.<\/em><\/p>\n

And also:<\/p>\n

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Jeremy Tiang<\/strong>\u00a0for\u00a0Nine Buildings<\/em>\u00a0by Chinese playwright\u00a0Zou Jingzhi<\/strong>. These blunt, tamped-down translations of tales of youth during cultural revolution in Beijing address the grim cruelty of that time. Tiang\u2019s language has a tang and matter-of-factness that effectively communicates the harshness of this text. (Available for publication)<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The PEN\/Heim Translation Fund has announced its 2013 winners. The Fund\u2019s Advisory Board are: Susan Bernofsky, Barbara Epler, Richard Sieburth, Lauren Wein, Eliot Weinberger, Natasha Wimmer, Matvei Yankelevich, and chair Michael F. Moore. Special congrats to: Chloe Garcia Roberts\u00a0for her … 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":[3],"tags":[1164,401,388,47,1169,1166,402,1167,1168,537,1165,496,128,534],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-ye","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2339,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2339","url_meta":{"origin":2122,"position":0},"title":"Announcing the Ancient Asia issue of Cha","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"December 16, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Announcing the Ancient Asia Issue of Cha (December 2013), featuring new translations of Chinese poetry by Xi Chuan, Tao Yuanming \u9676\u6df5\u660e, Du Fu \u675c\u752b, He Qifang \u4f55\u5176\u82b3, Xiao Kaiyu \u8096\u5f00\u611a, Liu Yong \u67f3\u6c38, the Shijing \u8a69\u7d93, Laozi \u8001\u5b50, Du Mu \u675c\u7267, and Li Shangyin \u674e\u5546\u96b1, and new work by Eliot\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Links"","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-ash3\/1524595_780801405269085_1113494189_n.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-ash3\/1524595_780801405269085_1113494189_n.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-ash3\/1524595_780801405269085_1113494189_n.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3527,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3527","url_meta":{"origin":2122,"position":1},"title":"Klein on New Premodern Chinese Poetry Translations in LARB","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"July 18, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks has published \"Tribunals of Erudition and Taste: or, Why Translations of Premodern Chinese Poetry Are Having a Moment Right Now,\" my take on what looks like something of a resurgence in translation into English. 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