{"id":2623,"date":"2014-05-21T09:30:21","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T01:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2623"},"modified":"2014-05-17T18:51:14","modified_gmt":"2014-05-17T10:51:14","slug":"cutbank-reviews-on-yu-xiang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2623","title":{"rendered":"Cutbank Reviews on Yu Xiang"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"61nowRuAZEL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_\"<\/a>Christina Cook of Cutbank Reviews <\/a>has reviewed Yu Xiang’s \u5b87\u5411 I Can Almost See the Clouds of Dust<\/b> <\/em>\u6211\u51e0\u4e4e\u770b\u5230\u6eda\u6eda\u5c18\u57c3, translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain. Cook places Yu Xiang in the history of contemporary Chinese poetry, and says her<\/p>\n

lines are neatly swept in a poetic house that has no cobwebs and does not pretend to be something it isn\u2019t. The poem neither bears an underlying political agenda, as did the socialist, realist poetry of the mid-20th<\/sup> century; nor does it express a reaction against it, as did the Misty poetry of the late 20th<\/sup> century.\u00a0 It does not even hint at the anti-hero, anti-allegory, anti-image leanings of her New Generation contemporaries. This is the house that Yu built, where the books of the past are no longer threatening or even relevant, aside from the presence of the stacked physical forms. They have become as benign as the tangerine tree or the piece of coal beside them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Christina Cook of Cutbank Reviews has reviewed Yu Xiang’s \u5b87\u5411 I Can Almost See the Clouds of Dust \u6211\u51e0\u4e4e\u770b\u5230\u6eda\u6eda\u5c18\u57c3, translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain. 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