{"id":2627,"date":"2014-06-02T09:30:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T01:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2627"},"modified":"2014-05-29T09:58:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T01:58:29","slug":"xi-chuan-at-the-copenhagen-international-literature-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2627","title":{"rendered":"Xi Chuan at the Copenhagen International Literature Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Writing China <\/a>blog caught up with Xi Chuan (and Fan Wen \u8303\u7a33 and Wang Gang \u738b\u521a) at the Copenhagen International Literature Festival, and has posted their replies to a brief questionnaire. Here’s an excerpt from what Xi Chuan had to say:<\/h4>\n

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on STYLE:<\/strong> Earlier I wrote lyrical poems, now I just write texts embodying something not poetic. It\u2019s more like poetic notes. I call it \u2018poessay\u2019 (\u6563\u6587\u8bd7<\/em>), because it\u2019s somewhere between poetry and essay.
\non CHINESE AND EUROPEAN LITERATURE:<\/strong> I once met Doris Lessing. She asked me about the Cultural Revolution and I in turn asked her about European literature. She said that after 1989 it had become less experimental because of the need to deal with real social problems. I also feel that I can\u2019t follow others, but my work has to relate to reality even if that reality is a disaster.
\non TRANSLATION:<\/strong> When I translated the Polish writer Czeslaw Milosz, I didn\u2019t use a dictionary, instead I asked my Polish friends whenever there was something I didn\u2019t understand.
\n on THE UNIVERSAL POET:<\/strong> Being a poet means you have to make sacrifices. Both in China and Denmark. As the American poet Robert Frost has it: \u201cTo take the road less travelled by.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Writing China blog caught up with Xi Chuan (and Fan Wen \u8303\u7a33 and Wang Gang \u738b\u521a) at the Copenhagen International Literature Festival, and has posted their replies to a brief questionnaire. 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