{"id":2260,"date":"2013-11-01T09:30:42","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T01:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2260"},"modified":"2013-10-25T10:49:03","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T02:49:03","slug":"a-common-strangeness-runner-up-for-asap-2013-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2260","title":{"rendered":"A Common Strangeness runner-up for ASAP 2013 Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jacob Edmond’s A Common Strangeness <\/em>has been named runner-up for the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present 2013 Book Prize. ASAP\u2019s citation reads:<\/p>\n

In this remarkable book, comparative literature outdoes itself, becoming fully contemporary and transnational: Edmond innovates a genuinely global poetics that discovers the fullest cultural crossings among Chinese, Russian, and U.S. poets. Reading correspondences among Yang Lian, Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, and Lyn Hejinian, Bei Dao, Dmitri Prigov, and Charles Bernstein, among others, Edmond aims to give a field \u201cstill shaped by the history and conceptual and political structures of the Cold War\u201d the resources to read the \u201cappositional, transnational, and multicultural poetics of our current era\u201d; its focus is contemporary poetry\u2019s \u201ccommon commitment to forms of strangeness,\u201d which disallow old assertions of what unites or foreignizes the world\u2019s populations.\u00a0 And its great advantage is a sense of literary culture equally powerful in its three languages, which translates to interpretive insight uniquely adequate to the world today. <\/em><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jacob Edmond’s A Common Strangeness has been named runner-up for the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present 2013 Book Prize. ASAP\u2019s citation reads: In this remarkable book, comparative literature outdoes itself, becoming fully contemporary and transnational: … 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":[66,50,27,356,354,357,21],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-As","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":709,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=709","url_meta":{"origin":2260,"position":0},"title":"Jacob Edmond’s Common Strangeness Blog","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"February 10, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Poetry translator and scholar Jacob Edmond has a new blog to promote his forthcoming book, A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature (forthcoming from Fordham University Press). 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