{"id":2198,"date":"2013-09-12T09:30:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T01:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2198"},"modified":"2013-09-10T22:38:41","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T14:38:41","slug":"xue-dis-across-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2198","title":{"rendered":"Xue Di’s Across Borders"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Chinese poet Xue Di \u96ea\u8fea<\/em> came to the United States immediately after the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989 in Beijing, becoming writer-in-residence at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and was a fellow in Brown’s Freedom to Write Program.<\/p>\n

In his newest book, Across Borders<\/b><\/em>, Xue Di writes marvelously rich prose poems on a large variety of “things”–in the sense of the French poet Francis Ponge’s Le Parti pris des choses<\/em>–both specific and abstract. From highly poetic confrontations with “Shadow,” “Music,” and “Bubbles,” the poet faces very specific and contemporary concerns such as an “Eatery,” a “Gift,” and a longer work on “Blue White Water.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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