{"id":273,"date":"2011-11-04T11:05:25","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T03:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=273"},"modified":"2011-11-04T12:11:10","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T04:11:10","slug":"words-and-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=273","title":{"rendered":"Words and the World"},"content":{"rendered":"

Words & The World<\/em><\/a>, the twenty-volume box set of multilingual pocket-sized poetry books for this year’s International Poetry Nights in Hong Kong <\/a>(which will take place from the 10th to 13th this month) has been published. It will be on sale at the festival, and in select Hong Kong bookstores soon. Click on the image below for another press release:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Xi Chuan volume, A Song of the Corner<\/em>, is a selection of poems that will appear in the forthcoming Notes on the Mosquito<\/em> (New Directions<\/a>, 2012), featuring the following pieces: \u201cSomebody\u201d \u67d0\u4eba, \u201cThe Neighbors<\/a>\u201d \u9130\u5c45, \u201cI Bury My Tail<\/a>\u201d \u6211\u85cf\u7740\u6211\u7684\u5c3e\u5df4, \u201cA Song of No Matter\u201d \u7121\u95dc\u7dca\u8981\u4e4b\u6b4c, \u201cA Song of the Corner\u201d \u7246\u89d2\u4e4b\u6b4c, \u201cFriends<\/a>\u201d \u719f\u4eba, \u201cCompanion<\/a>\u201d \u4f34\u4fb6, \u201cMy Grandma\u201d \u6211\u5976\u5976, \u201cManes of Yellow\u201d \u9ec3\u6bdb, \u201cDrizzle<\/a>\u201d \u9023\u9670\u96e8, \u201cSix Dynasties Ghosts<\/a>\u201d \u516d\u671d\u9b3c\u9b45, \u201cA Sanskrit Brick from Nanzhao (738 \u2013 937): after a Vietnamese poet<\/a>\u201d \u5357\u8a54\u570b\u68b5\u6587\u78da\uff1a\u4eff\u4e00\u4f4d\u8d8a\u5357\u8a69\u4eba, and \u201cFalcons, Swans, and Pearls<\/a>\u201d \u7375\u9df9\u3001\u5929\u9d5d\u8207\u73cd\u73e0.<\/p>\n

The other books, featuring the remaining nineteen participants of the International Poetry Nights, are by Mar\u00eda Baranda (Mexico), R\u00e9gis Bonvicino (Brazil), Arkadii Dragomoshchenko (Russia), Bejan Matur (Turkey), Paul Muldoon (Ireland), Vivek Narayanan (India), Toma\u017e \u0160alamun (Slovenia), Silke Scheuermann (Germany), Tanikawa Shuntar\u014d (Japan), C. D. Wright (USA), Chen Ko-hua \u9673\u514b\u83ef (Taiwan), Ling Yu \u96f6\u96e8 (Taiwan), Luo Chih Cheng \u7f85\u667a\u6210 (Taiwan), Tian Yuan \u7530\u539f (PRC \/ Japan), Wong Leung Wo \u738b\u826f\u548c (Hongkong), Yao Feng \u59da\u98a8 (PRC \/ Macau), Yip Fai \u8449\u7147 (Hongkong), Yu Jian \u4e8e\u5805 (PRC), and Yu Xiang \u5b87\u5411 (PRC). All books include the original language of composition, plus English and \/ or Chinese translations.<\/p>\n

After the Poetry Nights, each book will sell for HK$25, with the whole set at HK$450. During the festival you can enjoy a 50% discount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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