{"id":28,"date":"2011-10-03T11:34:02","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T03:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=28"},"modified":"2011-10-30T19:11:59","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T11:11:59","slug":"write-up-of-xi-chuan-zhou-zans-port-townsend-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"Write-up of Xi Chuan & Zhou Zan’s Port Townsend Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

Italian translator Matt Rowe <\/a>attended the recent Xi Chuan \/ Zhou Zan reading, and offered the following write-up:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Xi Chuan and Zhou Zan read on Saturday 1 October in Port Townsend, the second stop on their U.S. tour for the new anthology Push Open The Window<\/em>. The audience was small but enthusiastic.<\/p>\n

Xi Chuan opened the evening by reading (in Chinese and then English) poems by Mang Ke, Qing Ping, Yi Sha, and his friend Hai Zi, introducing each selection and placing it in the context of the revival of Chinese poetry after the Cultural Revolution. Zhou Zan, editor of the women’s poetry journal Wings<\/em>, then came to the stage and read selections from women poets including Zhai Yongming; Canadian-American poet\u00a0Heather McHugh, in attendance, stepped up to read the English translations (though Zhou Zan’s English sounded just fine). The poets then returned to the stage to read their own poetry.<\/p>\n

Throw out your preconceptions based on classical Chinese poetry.\u00a0These poets are translators of everyone from Dante to Milosz and Sontag,\u00a0and their work has echoes of Dickinson, Whitman, Williams, and many more recent poets.\u00a0Zhou Zan’s extended metaphor in “Wings” is the equal of any of her American or European feminist counterparts, while Xi Chuan’s “Exercises in Thought” is a maddeningly involuted prose poem that brings to mind Borges or Pessoa.<\/p>\n

If you can make it to one of the four remaining stops on the tour, this is an evening not to be missed.<\/p>\n

thanks, Matt!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Italian translator Matt Rowe attended the recent Xi Chuan \/ Zhou Zan reading, and offered the following write-up: Xi Chuan and Zhou Zan read on Saturday 1 October in Port Townsend, the second stop on their U.S. tour for the … 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":[9,16,7],"tags":[33,1654],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-s","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1128,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1128","url_meta":{"origin":28,"position":0},"title":"Contemporary Poetry from China: A Reading and Discussion with Xi Chuan and Zhou Zan","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"August 30, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/l4PhZxQTD_E Poetry reading and discussion with Xi Chuan and Zhou Zan\u00a0\u5468\u74d2 at the Library of Congress last October in promotion of Push Open the Window. 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