{"id":2734,"date":"2014-08-06T09:30:47","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T01:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2734"},"modified":"2014-07-29T18:28:06","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T10:28:06","slug":"asia-society-hongkong-launch-of-ouyang-jianghes-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2734","title":{"rendered":"Asia Society Hongkong Launch of Ouyang Jianghe’s Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>August 8: Evening Poetry Reading and Discussion<\/em><\/div>\n
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Drinks Reception at 6:30 pm
\nReading & Discussion at 7:00 pm
\nClose at 8:00 pm
\nAsia Society Hongkong<\/a>
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Ouyang Jianghe \u6b27\u9633\u6c5f\u6cb3 will read from his ekphrastic mini-epic Phoenix<\/em> \u51e4\u51f0, with poet Nicolas Wong reading Austin Woerner’s English translation. A discussion on the relationship between Ouyang’s writing and its inspiration in the sculpture by Xu Bing \u5f90\u51b0 <\/span>will follow.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

From Woerner’s preface to the translation:<\/p>\n

The poem multiplies the complexity of his earlier poems; it is, by his own account, his magnum opus. Synthesizing his earlier concerns of the materiality of language, the Chinese literary legacy, and the role of art in society into a sustained meditation on the theme of flight, it reflects two and a half decades of work refining the \u201cobscure\u201d language of Misty poetry into a vessel for sophisticated philosophical inquiry. The poem, written by Ouyang in 2010 after a silence of almost two decades, is the culmination of his experiment, where in the eighties and nineties he produced a body of poems distinguished by their length, technical intricacy, and high degree of abstraction. He has, in his recent work, taken this project to a new level, writing book-length poems of densely interlinked stanzas rife with wordplay, a fugue-like development of motifs, and the technique of argument by paradox \u2014 known in Chinese as beilun<\/em> (\u6096\u8ad6) \u2014 employed by the philosopher Zhuangzi (\u838a\u5b50) to capture the illogical logic of Daoism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click the image above for further event information and free registration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

August 8: Evening Poetry Reading and Discussion Drinks Reception at 6:30 pm Reading & Discussion at 7:00 pm Close at 8:00 pm Asia Society Hongkong Ouyang Jianghe \u6b27\u9633\u6c5f\u6cb3 will read from his ekphrastic mini-epic Phoenix \u51e4\u51f0, with poet Nicolas Wong … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[39,1439,236,453],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-I6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3490,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3490","url_meta":{"origin":2734,"position":0},"title":"Turner on Ouyang Jianghe","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"May 11, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Ouyang Jianghe \u6b27\u9633\u6c5f\u6cb3 gave a reading at the China Institute on May 7th, moderated by Yibing Huang (poet Mai Mang \u9ea6\u8292). 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