{"id":2487,"date":"2014-03-04T09:30:41","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T01:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2487"},"modified":"2014-02-28T10:19:59","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T02:19:59","slug":"johannes-goransson-on-aase-berg-ye-mimi-tomas-transtromer-translation-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2487","title":{"rendered":"Johannes G\u00f6ransson on Aase Berg \/ Ye Mimi \/ Tomas Transtr\u00f6mer \/ Translation Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"5_Ye_Mimi_photo\"<\/a>Over at Montevidayo<\/em>,\u00a0Johannes G\u00f6ransson has posted “Exploded Transtr\u00f6mer: On Ye Mimi and Translation<\/a>.” A hyperopticon of connections, it links Taiwanese poet Ye Mimi \u8449\u8993\u8993 to Nobel lit. prizewinner Tomas Transtr\u00f6mer via what Swedish poet Aase Berg’s reading:<\/p>\n

A few months ago, after she came back from the Hong Kong poetry festival, Aase Berg wrote to me that she had come across an amazing poet: Ye Mimi. (Apparently YM appeared with a very impressive guitar player as well.)<\/p>\n

That is funny because when I first read Ye Mimi what came to my mind was a somewhat controversial article Aase wrote in Expressen after Tomas Transtr\u00f6mer won the Nobel Prize the other year <\/a>… Ye Mimi\u2019s poems are wonderful in that way: as \u201cbanality and surprising intelligence in unexpected union.\u201d In fact they read a little like Transtr\u00f6mer poems in which the metaphors flip out, go off in tangents. And a Transtr\u00f6mer poem in which the tenor of the metaphor is not privileged \u2013 not over the vehicle, not over the \u201cbanal\u201d everyday stuff (pink hoodies, telephone booths etc).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

From there, he indicates a critique of Translation Studies as it’s come to be known under the direction of Lawrence Venuti, which he says “quarantines the work in translation: we never have the work in translation.”<\/p>\n

Click the image above to read the post in full.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over at Montevidayo,\u00a0Johannes G\u00f6ransson has posted “Exploded Transtr\u00f6mer: On Ye Mimi and Translation.” A hyperopticon of connections, it links Taiwanese poet Ye Mimi \u8449\u8993\u8993 to Nobel lit. prizewinner Tomas Transtr\u00f6mer via what Swedish poet Aase Berg’s reading: A few months … 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":[8,3,16],"tags":[1062,1061,683,258,658],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-E7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2294,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2294","url_meta":{"origin":2487,"position":0},"title":"Poetry & Globalization: Opponents or Partners? 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