{"id":2346,"date":"2014-01-02T09:30:27","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T01:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2346"},"modified":"2013-12-27T23:31:37","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T15:31:37","slug":"new-wen-yiduo-translations-by-robert-hammond-dorsett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2346","title":{"rendered":"New Wen Yiduo Translations by Robert Hammond Dorsett"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book<\/a>Announcing Stagnant Water & Other Poems<\/em> by Wen Yiduo \u805e\u4e00\u591a (1899 \u2013 1946), translated by Robert Hammond Dorsett<\/p>\n

This stagnant ditch is hopeless.
\nClearly, not a place where beauty thrives.
\nBetter cultivate its ugliness.
\nPerhaps its ugliness will create a world.<\/p>\n

\u9019\u662f\u4e00\u6e9d\u7d55\u671b\u7684\u6b7b\u6c34\uff0c <\/em>
\n \u9019\u88cf\u65b7\u4e0d\u662f\u7f8e\u7684\u6240\u5728\uff0c <\/em>
\n \u4e0d\u5982\u8b93\u7d66\u919c\u60e1\u4f86\u958b\u58be\uff0c <\/em>
\n \u770b\u4ed6\u9020\u51fa\u500b\u4ec0\u9ebc\u4e16\u754c\u3002<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For more information including ordering information, click on the cover image above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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