{"id":2151,"date":"2013-08-13T09:30:03","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T01:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2013-08-09T23:36:23","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T15:36:23","slug":"fiona-sze-lorrain-featured-in-china-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2151","title":{"rendered":"Fiona Sze-Lorrain featured in China Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Solving<\/a><\/p>\n

“Solving a riddle with a harp and the magic of words”<\/p>\n

As a student at Columbia University, she dabbled in theater, writing and East Asian studies, and came to realize that there was more to be understood in the space between words and cultures, she said. Studying her own heritage from an intellectual perspective allowed for an ambivalence she had never indulged, and poetry provided an outlet for evolving views.<\/p>\n

When she struggled with writing, she found solace in source material and the writing of other poets; from there, she discovered the pleasure of translating Chinese works. She has since translated books by the poets Yu Xiang, Bai Hua and Yi Liu, among others.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click on the image for the full article.<\/p>\n

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