{"id":2890,"date":"2014-12-01T09:30:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-01T01:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2890"},"modified":"2014-11-29T18:22:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T10:22:13","slug":"hamills-crossing-the-yellow-river-reviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2890","title":{"rendered":"Hamill’s Crossing the Yellow River Reviewed"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"crossingyellowriver\"<\/a>John Bradley has reviewed Sam Hamill’s Crossing the Yellow River: Three Hundred Poems from the Chinese<\/em><\/a> (Tiger Bark Press) at Rain Taxi<\/em><\/a>. He writes:<\/p>\n

What is about Chinese poetry, especially the poetry of the T\u2019ang Dynasty (618-907 CE), that has drawn so many translators over the years, such as Ezra Pound, Arthur Waley, Kenneth Rexroth, and Bill Porter, to name only a few? … Li Po\u2019s \u201cQuestions Answered\u201d offers a good example of that \u201cdepth and clarity and delicacy\u201d:<\/p>\n

You ask why I live
\nalone in the mountain forest,<\/p>\n

and I smile and am silent
\nuntil even my soul grows quiet.<\/p>\n

The peach trees blossom.
\nThe water continues to flow.<\/p>\n

I live in the other world,
\none that lies beyond the human.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click the image for the full review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Bradley has reviewed Sam Hamill’s Crossing the Yellow River: Three Hundred Poems from the Chinese (Tiger Bark Press) at Rain Taxi. He writes: What is about Chinese poetry, especially the poetry of the T\u2019ang Dynasty (618-907 CE), that has … 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":[603,1355,38,1492,30,508,542],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-KC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=38","url_meta":{"origin":2890,"position":0},"title":"Xi Chuan on Tagore and Modern Chinese Poetry","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"October 7, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I just came across the following video, a lecture by Xi Chuan in English from Spring, 2009, to the Columbia University Alumni Association in Beijing. 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