{"id":3220,"date":"2015-06-29T09:30:18","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T01:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3220"},"modified":"2015-06-29T08:50:42","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T00:50:42","slug":"on-the-mountain-two-versions-of-wang-wei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3220","title":{"rendered":"On the Mountain: Two versions of Wang Wei"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The online mag. I recently came across an old page on Hilobrow<\/em><\/a>, starting with this:<\/p>\n

The Taiyi summit\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 nears the seat of heaven
\nlinked mountains\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 stretch to brink of sea<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and<\/p>\n

The Taiyi summit nears the seat of heaven;
\nlinked mountains stretch to brink of sea.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Two versions of the opening couplet of a Wang Wei \u738b\u7dad poem by Hilobrow <\/em>cofounder Matthew Battles, the second in the style of David Hinton. “We\u2019re always struggling with the apparent multivalence of classical Chinese poetry,” Battles writes, “the way the openness of the language seems to permit so many readings, combined with the difficulty of translocating the tonal, lexical, and ideographic effects of the originals into alphabetically-styled verse without either losing much of the force or going all specious with talk about picture-writing and orientalist exoticism”\u2014and he mentions books by Eliot Weinberger and Yunte Huang to shore up his point. But in the end, after a weekend on Maine\u2019s Mount Katahdin,<\/p>\n

In the Wang Wei I found echoes of the work the mountain did on me: the braided vistas merging, the gulfs and abysses seducing, the zones of forest succession merging and disappearing into one another as one moves up and down slope.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The online mag. I recently came across an old page on Hilobrow, starting with this: The Taiyi summit\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 nears the seat of heaven linked mountains\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 stretch to brink of sea and The Taiyi summit nears the seat of heaven; linked … 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":[434,47,912,1621,344,1223],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-PW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2801,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2801","url_meta":{"origin":3220,"position":0},"title":"Omniglot Seminar: Cosmologies of the Classical with Chloe Garcia Roberts & David Hinton","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"September 22, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"David Hinton, author of Mountain Home and\u00a0translator of Chinese poets including\u00a0Wang Wei \u738b\u7dad, Hsieh Ling-Y\u00fcn \u8b1d\u9748\u904b, and Bei Dao \u5317\u5cf6, joins Chloe Garcia Roberts, translator of\u00a0Derangements of My Contemporaries\u00a0by Li Shangyin \u674e\u5546\u96b1. 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