{"id":2681,"date":"2014-06-25T09:30:20","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T01:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2681"},"modified":"2014-06-23T22:21:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T14:21:49","slug":"eleanor-goodmans-wang-xiaoni-on-circumference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2681","title":{"rendered":"Eleanor Goodman’s Wang Xiaoni on Circumference"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"1-\u738b\u5c0f\u59ae\u7167\u7247\"\"EG<\/a>In advance of Something Crosses My Mind<\/em> <\/a>\u6709\u751a\u4e48\u5728\u6211\u5fc3\u91cc\u4e00\u8fc7, Circumference<\/em> <\/a>has published two Wang Xiaoni \u738b\u5c0f\u59ae poems as translated by Eleanor Goodman. Goodman writes:<\/p>\n

Wang Xiaoni is a poet of small gestures. The energy in her work comes not from grand pronouncements or abstractions, but from the details of daily life. She writes of trains and pockets, cold weather and potatoes, windows and the moon. Yet this poet\u2019s daily life also includes ghosts, ancient scarecrows in dresses, and lotus ponds that bubble black.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And here’s a taste of the poetry:<\/p>\n

Ah this mind, there is nothing it likes
\nit can only like the boundless black depths behind the night sky.<\/p>\n

The train is too flustered to pick a track
\nit grasps the gilded silver-inlaid earth
\nfor fear it will be thrown off, or soar up and crash back down.
\nCentipedes slide about, landing legs in the air, haha<\/em>, in the pale moonlit night.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click the images above for the two poems in full.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In advance of Something Crosses My Mind \u6709\u751a\u4e48\u5728\u6211\u5fc3\u91cc\u4e00\u8fc7, Circumference has published two Wang Xiaoni \u738b\u5c0f\u59ae poems as translated by Eleanor Goodman. Goodman writes: Wang Xiaoni is a poet of small gestures. 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