{"id":3122,"date":"2015-04-22T09:30:51","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T01:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3122"},"modified":"2015-03-27T10:47:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T02:47:47","slug":"goodmans-li-li-in-two-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3122","title":{"rendered":"Goodman’s Li Li in Two Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The newest online edition of Two Lines<\/em> <\/a>features three Li Li \u674e\u7b20<\/span><\/span> poems as translated by Eleanor Goodman.<\/p>\n

Here’s a bit from his “Thinking of My Father While Sick”:<\/p>\n

Did you lie there like this too? In the dawn and spreading cancer cells
\nyou turned over, peeled a tangerine. It was raw and raining
\nYou saw the moon digging a tomb inside your body\u2026\u2026
\nI turn over. Peel a tangerine. I wish my children would come to me
\nso I might hear the tender young sound of \u201cAre you better?\u201d
\nThey don\u2019t come.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For more, click on the image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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