{"id":2605,"date":"2014-05-07T09:30:36","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T01:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2605"},"modified":"2014-04-25T09:57:54","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T01:57:54","slug":"heather-inwood-in-china-today-does-poetry-still-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2605","title":{"rendered":"Heather Inwood: In China today, does poetry still matter?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Verse\"<\/a><\/em>In advance of her Verse Going Viral: China\u2019s New Media Scenes<\/a><\/em>, Heather Inwood blogs <\/a>for University of Washington Press on the place of poetry in China today. Here’s how she concludes:<\/p>\n

Yet the move toward accessibility hasn\u2019t always pleased the public. Making written poetry sound like everyday speech was supposed to facilitate communication between poets and their audiences. Instead, it appears to have prompted a large swathe of China\u2019s online population to adopt a gatekeeping mentality of their own, complaining that poems that are too easily understood don\u2019t deserve the title of \u201cpoetry.\u201d In doing so, they inadvertently address the question I began with. Does poetry still matter? If the question is being asked in the first place, I would venture that we already know the answer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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In advance of her Verse Going Viral: China\u2019s New Media Scenes, Heather Inwood blogs for University of Washington Press on the place of poetry in China today. 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