{"id":2741,"date":"2014-09-01T09:30:32","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T01:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2741"},"modified":"2014-07-30T22:26:47","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T14:26:47","slug":"forthcoming-burton-watsons-chinese-rhyme-prose-re-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2741","title":{"rendered":"Forthcoming: Burton Watson’s Chinese Rhyme-Prose Re-release"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Chinese<\/a>Burton Watson’s 1971 collection Chinese Rhyme-Prose<\/em> <\/a>will be re-released as part of the New York Review Books \/ Chinese University Press Calligrams<\/em> series, with a short essay of mine as a preface. Here’s a sample of the jacket copy from the publishers:<\/figure>\n

The fu<\/i>, or rhyme-prose, is a major poetic form in Chinese literature, most popular between the second century BCE and the sixth century CE. Unlike what is usually considered Chinese poetry, it is a hybrid of prose and rhymed verse, more expansive than the condensed lyrics, verging on what would be called Whitmanesque. The thirteen long poems included here are descriptions of and meditations on such subjects as mountains and abandoned cities, the sea and the wind, owls and goddesses, partings and the idle life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click on the image above for pre-ordering information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Burton Watson’s 1971 collection Chinese Rhyme-Prose will be re-released as part of the New York Review Books \/ Chinese University Press Calligrams series, with a short essay of mine as a preface. 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