{"id":2929,"date":"2014-12-12T09:30:55","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T01:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2929"},"modified":"2014-12-11T22:56:25","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T14:56:25","slug":"the-umbrellas-and-the-tear-gas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2929","title":{"rendered":"The Umbrellas and the Tear Gas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>CURAmag has posted “The Umbrellas and the Tear Gas<\/a>,” a feature of poems from the Occupy Central movement, now cleared, put together and introduced by Louise Law, with Henry Wei Leung. The poems are by Chung Kwok Keung, translated by Tammy Ho, and Chan Lai Kuen, translated by Amy K. Bell. “The two poems selected here are a reminder of the first days,” Law and Leung write. “They are also an artifact, a document of local voices speaking for themselves in the face of being revised by an official history.”<\/p>\n

Metaphor is on strike
\nand there\u2019s pepper spray to eat,
\n\u2026hard to say how many peppers were used.
\nTear gas tastes just like tear gas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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

CURAmag has posted “The Umbrellas and the Tear Gas,” a feature of poems from the Occupy Central movement, now cleared, put together and introduced by Louise Law, with Henry Wei Leung. 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