The ten exclamatory, cuttingly modern poems of His Days Go By the Way Her Years<\/em> are shot through with sonic gamesmanship, punning, the unbridled verbing of nouns, and voraciously transcultural allusion. Many also perform an oscillation between coy formal disruption and seductive dream logic, as in the typographically resistant line: \u201c\\ every one of the \u25fb\u25fb<\/sup> \/ could find themselves sluiced by the \u25fb\u25fb\u25fb<\/sup> into a water melon frappe of a summer season.\u201d The poems are well aware of their own cleverness, but resist turning precious as they revel in grotesque particulars and subversions of the ordinary stuff of life and poetic diction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nClick the image above for the complete write-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Best Translated Book Award winners have been announced. But here’s Anna Rosenwong on why Steve Bradbury’s translation of His Days Go By the Way Her Years by Ye Mimi \u8449\u8993\u8993 should win: The ten exclamatory, cuttingly modern poems of … 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":[1395,1006,116],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-FV","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2456,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2456","url_meta":{"origin":2599,"position":0},"title":"Ye Mimi Chapbook Translated by Steve Bradbury","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"March 3, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"New from Anomalous Press: His Days Go By the Way Her Years is a collection of Steve Bradbury\u2019s best translations of poetry by Taiwanese poet and filmmaker Ye Mimi \u8449\u8993\u8993. 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<\/a>The Best Translated Book Award winners have been announced. But here’s Anna Rosenwong<\/a> on why Steve Bradbury’s translation of His Days Go By the Way Her Years<\/em> by Ye Mimi \u8449\u8993\u8993 should win:<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n