{"id":2934,"date":"2015-01-07T09:30:24","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T01:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2934"},"modified":"2014-12-29T17:53:18","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T09:53:18","slug":"john-balcoms-xiang-yang-forthcoming-from-zephyr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2934","title":{"rendered":"John Balcom’s Xiang Yang forthcoming from Zephyr"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Zephyr Press <\/a>will be publishing Grass Roots<\/em>, a collection of poems by Taiwanese poet Xiang Yang \u5411\u967d, translated by John Balcom.<\/p>\n

The so-called \u201cthird generation poets,\u201d such as Xiang Yang, Du Ye, and Lo Qing, wanted to see a resurgence of Chinese national and local culture after years of foreign domination. In Taiwan, this revival was complex and multifaceted: the trend toward Westernization in the cultural sphere was subverted by a resurgence of interest in traditional Chinese culture, and political domination by the Kuomintang from the Mainland was opposed by promotion of Taiwanese language and culture. Xiang Yang himself eventually decided to explore two avenues: to write poetry in his native southern Min dialect and to experiment with formalist verse. \u201cI asked myself what made classical poems so enduring,\u201d he says. \u201cIt seemed to me that the strict compositional rules and forms of classical poetry contributed greatly to poetic quality.\u201d He began experimenting with forms and rhyme, finally settling on a ten-line poem broken into two quintets as the form most suited to his temperament. It can be said that form made a poet out of him: formal limitations helped to channel and structure the poetic impulse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Zephyr Press will be publishing Grass Roots, a collection of poems by Taiwanese poet Xiang Yang \u5411\u967d, translated by John Balcom. The so-called \u201cthird generation poets,\u201d such as Xiang Yang, Du Ye, and Lo Qing, wanted to see a resurgence … 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":[1504,1031,1505,1503],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-Lk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3366,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3366","url_meta":{"origin":2934,"position":0},"title":"Morse Reviews Balcom’s Xiang Yang","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"January 13, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Canaan Morse reviews John Balcom's translation of Grass Roots: Selected Poems by Xiang Yang\u00a0\u5411\u967d (Zephyr) for World Literature Today: Balcom\u2019s ubiquitous preference for merging verbs into adjectival phrases or deleting them entirely strengthens static image and removes dynamic energies that might be considered noisier in English than in Chinese. 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