{"id":2257,"date":"2013-10-28T09:30:34","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T01:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2257"},"modified":"2013-10-24T10:57:58","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T02:57:58","slug":"lucien-stryk-prize-acceptance-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2257","title":{"rendered":"Lucien Stryk Prize Acceptance Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

Someone was impressed enough by my acceptance speech for the Lucien Stryk prize <\/a>to suggest I share it here. So I am!<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a wonderful honor, both for me and for Xi Chuan, to be awarded the Lucien Stryk Prize for Asian poetry in translation. Any prize awarded by ALTA would be an honor, because ALTA is one of my favorite organizations to belong to\u2014I\u2019ve often said that literary translators are by definition interesting people, because by definition we\u2019re interested in more than one thing. ALTA as a group and many of its members as individuals were very helpful in offering their time, patience, insight, and scolds as I worked on translating Xi Chuan, and much of my success as a translator is owed to the wisdom I gained from them.<\/p>\n

The Lucien Stryk prize, in particular, is also a special one for me and for Xi Chuan, because of its dedication to honoring Asian poetry in translation, and the tradition of Asian poetry in translation\u2014in addition to Asian poetry in general\u2014was very much in my mind when translating the pieces in Notes on the Mosquito<\/i>, as it was in Xi Chuan\u2019s over the three decades in which he wrote the poems. As an undergrad English major, Xi Chuan wrote his senior thesis on Ezra Pound\u2019s translations from Chinese, he recently published a translation of Gary Snyder\u2019s poetry, and in many ways Xi Chuan was reintroduced to the literary history of his own culture from the attention and presentation he encountered in Pound, Snyder, and others, including Jorge Luis Borges.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m also especially honored to be part of the group of previous Lucien Stryk honorees\u2014a group that already features some of my favorite translators! I find inclusion in such a group both humbling and inspiring, as the best Asian poetry in translation has always been.<\/p>\n

I would like to extend my deepest gratitude to New Directions<\/a>, to my editor Jeffrey Yang, and most of all to Xi Chuan, whose cooperation and friendship were essential to the success of this book. Until three years ago there were no single-author collections of poetry by Chinese-language poets currently living in mainland China<\/i> published in the US, but now we are living in what appears to be a golden age of contemporary Chinese poetry in English translation, to match what may be a golden age of poetry in China itself. Thanks to New Directions for contributing to that golden age, and thanks to Xi Chuan for helping make that golden age in the first place!<\/p>\n

Thank you very, very much!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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