{"id":3090,"date":"2015-03-23T09:30:01","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T01:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3090"},"modified":"2015-02-17T10:41:06","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T02:41:06","slug":"ma-lan-in-circumference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3090","title":{"rendered":"Ma Lan in Circumference"},"content":{"rendered":"

The newest issue of Circumference<\/em> <\/a>features poems by Ma Lan \u9a6c\u5170, translated by Charles Laughlin. Here’s from “Writing a Love Poem for a Tooth”\u4e3a\u7259\u9f7f\u5199\u9996\u60c5\u8bd7:<\/p>\n

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2. As I am the freshly minted 2003 Poet Laureate of Bent-Neck Village, my dentist is a Yale PhD.<\/div>\n
He insisted that I do a deep cleaning.<\/div>\n
He stands on the Himalayas teaching Nepalese children to brush their teeth.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Brushing in the sunshine and smiles\u2014modern industrial society takes smiling seriously<\/div>\n
The snowy mountains flow downward.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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2\uff1a\u4f5c\u4e3a\u65b0\u9c9c\u51fa\u7089\u76842003\u5e74\u6b6a\u8116\u9547\u6842\u82b1\u8bd7\u4eba\uff0c\u6211\u7684\u7259\u533b\u662f\u8036\u9c81\u5927\u5b66\u533b\u5b66\u535a\u58eb\u3002<\/em>
\n\u4ed6\u575a\u6301\u8981\u6211\u6df1\u5ea6\u6e05\u6d17\u7259\u9f7f\uff0e<\/em>
\n\u4ed6\u7ad9\u5728\u559c\u9a6c\u62c9\u7259\u5c71\u6559\u5c3c\u6cca\u5c14\u7684\u5b69\u5b50\u5b66\u5237\u7259\u3002<\/em>
\n\u5237\u51fa\u9633\u5149\uff0c\u5237\u51fa\u5fae\u7b11\u3002 \u73b0\u4ee3\u5de5\u4e1a\u793e\u4f1a\u8bb2\u7a76\u5fae\u7b11\u3002<\/em>
\n\u96ea\u5c71\u968f\u6d41\u800c\u4e0b\u3002<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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For the full set of poems, click here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The newest issue of Circumference features poems by Ma Lan \u9a6c\u5170, translated by Charles Laughlin. Here’s from “Writing a Love Poem for a Tooth”\u4e3a\u7259\u9f7f\u5199\u9996\u60c5\u8bd7: 2. As I am the freshly minted 2003 Poet Laureate of Bent-Neck Village, my dentist is … 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":[1],"tags":[297,298],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-NQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":597,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=597","url_meta":{"origin":3090,"position":0},"title":"\u8bd7\u4e1c\u897f Poetry East West","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"January 4, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"A new double issue of the Beijing \/ LA-based literary journal Poetry East West \u8bd7\u4e1c\u897f is out, featuring poems by Xi Chuan in my translation and a grand host of other poets translated into & out of Chinese, from Diana Shi and George O'Connell's Yu Jian \u4e8e\u575a to Charles Laughlin's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Links"","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2443,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2443","url_meta":{"origin":3090,"position":1},"title":"New Issue of CLEAR","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"March 12, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The new issue of Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews (CLEAR) is hitting the shelves (or stacks), along with it my article \u201cIndic Echoes: Form, Content, and World Literature in Tang Dynasty Regulated Verse,\u201d Charles Laughlin's \u201cNew Translators & Contemporary Chinese Literature in English,\u201d my review of Jonathan Stalling's Shi Zhi\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Links"","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3108,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3108","url_meta":{"origin":3090,"position":2},"title":"Switchback review of Sze-Lorrain’s Lan Lan","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"May 13, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Christina Cook at Switchback reviews Canyon in the Body \u8eab\u4f53\u91cc\u7684\u5ce1\u8c37 by Lan Lan \u84dd\u84dd, translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain. 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