{"id":3008,"date":"2015-02-11T09:30:01","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T01:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3008"},"modified":"2015-01-25T22:36:06","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T14:36:06","slug":"asymptote-write-up-of-ouyang-jianghes-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3008","title":{"rendered":"Asymptote write-up of Ouyang Jianghe’s Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Dylan Suher for Asymptote<\/em> <\/a>writes on Austin Woerner’s translation of Phoenix<\/em> \u51e4\u51f0, by Ouyang Jianghe \u6b27\u9633\u6c5f\u6cb3 (after a sculpture by Xu Bing \u5f90\u51b0) (Zephyr, 2014):<\/p>\n

This excellent Zephyr Books edition packages the poem together with pictures of the sculpture, and, in what happily seems to be becoming the norm, places Woerner\u2019s translation alongside the original. The bilingual reader can thus fully appreciate that the translation, rather than aiming to fix the quicksilver of the original, is a piano four-hands between two talented writers. From verse 14:<\/p>\n

Ransacks the void till no emptiness remains,<\/em>
\nwhile prestidigitating truths from thin air; <\/em><\/p>\n

\u7a7a\uff0c\u672c\u5c31\u662f\u7a7a\u7684\uff0c\u88ab\u4ed6\u638f\u7a7a\u4e86\uff0c<\/em>
\n\u53cd\u800c\u51ed\u7a7a\u638f\u51fa\u4e9b\u771f\u4e1c\u897f\u3002<\/em><\/p>\n

Woerner translates \u201c\u638f<\/em>\u201d (tao<\/em>), \u201cto pull out\u201d or \u201cto fish out,\u201d as \u201cransack\u201d in the first line and \u201cprestidigitate\u201d in the second. These words do not quite come out of thin air, but\u2014to borrow from the language of finance\u2014it is a leveraged interpretation, and its yield is spectacular. The Zephyr books edition of \u201cPhoenix\u201d is therefore poetry truly suited to this age of globalization: two poets from opposite sides of the world collaborating to illuminate the way of life that unites them both.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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

Dylan Suher for Asymptote writes on Austin Woerner’s translation of Phoenix \u51e4\u51f0, by Ouyang Jianghe \u6b27\u9633\u6c5f\u6cb3 (after a sculpture by Xu Bing \u5f90\u51b0) (Zephyr, 2014): This excellent Zephyr Books edition packages the poem together with pictures of the sculpture, and, … 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":[39,656,236,1374],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-Mw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2787,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2787","url_meta":{"origin":3008,"position":0},"title":"Video of Ouyang Jianghe reading from Phoenix","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"September 15, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/U8Qjg6H1ddA The write-up from Paul Manfredi's China Avantgarde blog: Ouyang Jianghe's \u6b27\u9633\u6c5f\u6cb3 poem was inspired by a sculptural work of the same title by Xu Bing \u5f90\u51b0. 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