{"id":243,"date":"2011-10-31T09:49:17","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T01:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=243"},"modified":"2011-10-31T09:49:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T01:49:17","slug":"revisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=243","title":{"rendered":"Revisions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not too long ago I posted a picture <\/a>of the handwritten edits my New Directions <\/a>editor sent me on my Xi Chuan manuscript. I thought I’d follow-up with a couple visions of what those edits have entailed in type. The first is from a translation that’s already been published<\/a>, and in the spirit of comparison that motivated the printing in the PEN Translation Slam<\/a>, I thought I’d provide an update:<\/p>\n

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The second example, so far unpublished, is a stanza from “Proscriptions” \u6212\u5f8b, which I’ve re-written thoroughly:<\/p>\n

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Not too long ago I posted a picture of the handwritten edits my New Directions editor sent me on my Xi Chuan manuscript. I thought I’d follow-up with a couple visions of what those edits have entailed in type. 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