{"id":3228,"date":"2015-07-03T09:30:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T01:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3228"},"modified":"2015-06-29T09:24:15","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T01:24:15","slug":"zheng-min-looks-back-in-the-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3228","title":{"rendered":"Zheng Min Looks Back in the WSJ"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Under the title, “A Poet From China\u2019s Avant-Garde Looks Back,” the Wall Street Journal<\/a> <\/em>has published a brief interview with Nine Leaves \u4e5d\u8449 poet Zheng Min \u912d\u654f, who “stopped writing along with the other poets in the 1950s after she returned from a sojourn in the U.S. to study literature at Brown University and voice at Juilliard,” but “picked the pen back up in 1979, a period she calls her ‘second childhood,’ when she began to explore poetry as well as philosophy and translation.” She says:<\/p>\n

I started to study philosophy to have a better understanding of literature, because I don\u2019t think you can really understand literature without a background of philosophy. I loved both of them. I think philosophy without literature is too hard. Literature without philosophy has no depth. So you have to combine both.<\/p>\n

Also, I think I\u2019m influenced by Rilke, because I had that philosophy background. So I\u2019m tied to German poetry more than contemporary American poetry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click the image to read more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Under the title, “A Poet From China\u2019s Avant-Garde Looks Back,” the Wall Street Journal has published a brief interview with Nine Leaves \u4e5d\u8449 poet Zheng Min \u912d\u654f, who “stopped writing along with the other poets in the 1950s after she … 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":[1623,681],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-Q4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1085,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1085","url_meta":{"origin":3228,"position":0},"title":"Brief Interview with Zheng Min","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"August 13, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The poet Zheng Min \u90d1\u654f, the last surviving member of the Nine Leaves\u00a0\u4e5d\u53f6 poetry group, is featured in a brief WSJ interview. 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