{"id":3338,"date":"2015-12-21T09:30:35","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T01:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3338"},"modified":"2015-12-13T14:49:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T06:49:41","slug":"yips-qu-yuan-forthcoming-in-rothenbergs-new-technicians-of-the-sacred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3338","title":{"rendered":"Yip’s Qu Yuan forthcoming in Rothenberg’s new Technicians of the Sacred"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Portrait<\/a>Jerome Rothenberg will be releasing an expanded version of his foundational anthology Technicians of the Sacred<\/em>, and it will include an excerpt from a new translation of Qu Yuan \u5c48\u539f by Wai-lim Yip \u8449\u7dad\u5ec9. Rotheberg has published a preview on his blog at Jacket2<\/em><\/a>, where he writes:<\/p>\n

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The Nine Songs<\/em> by Qu Yuan (332\u2013296 B.C.), excerpts from which appeared in the earlier editions of Technicians of the Sacred <\/em>in Arthur Waley\u2019s well-known & text-only translation, was in its origins a clear example of poetry as an act of \u201ctotal performance.\u201d Writes Wai-lim Yip as translator: \u201cRecent scholarship, particularly the work of the poet-scholar Wen Yiduo, sees Qu Yuan\u2019s The Nine Songs<\/em> as a collection of songs of folk and oral nature used in ancient shamanistic ritualistic dramas performed near Dongting Lake in Hu\u2019nan Province. The songs as they appear in the Chu Ci<\/em> or The Songs of the South<\/em> (consisting of one single, ambiguous voice and in the form of poems) are believed to have been greatly worked over by Qu Yuan. Wen Yiduo, himself a famous modern Chinese poet of the 1920s, in addition to his many essays tracing the poem to relevant origins, reconstructs The Nine Songs<\/em> into a performable structure. The present translation is a slightly modified version based on his reconstruction.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A section from the translation reads:<\/p>\n

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Riding a white turtle, chasing spotted fishes,
\nI will roam with you among the small islets
\nAs swollen waters come tumbling down.
\nWith crossed hands, I will go with you to the East,
\nTo escort my beautiful one to the Southern Shore.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Jerome Rothenberg will be releasing an expanded version of his foundational anthology Technicians of the Sacred, and it will include an excerpt from a new translation of Qu Yuan \u5c48\u539f by Wai-lim Yip \u8449\u7dad\u5ec9. Rotheberg has published a preview on … 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":[603,224,806],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-RQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3551,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3551","url_meta":{"origin":3338,"position":0},"title":"Rothenberg on Pound & Yip","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"September 19, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Jerome Rothenberg has posted his introduction to a collection of the poetry in English of Wai-lim Yip \u8449\u7dad\u5ec9, forthcoming next year. 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