M<\/em>. And since the book won’t be out until sometime later in 2016, you still have time to read it and put it on this year’s list again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If the end of the year is a time for lists, the beginning of a year is the time for taking stock of the Chinese poetry titles that appeared in last year’s “best of” lists. 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<\/a>The PEN Award for Poetry in Translation<\/a> is a $3,000 prize for a book-length translation of poetry into English. The 2015 includes David Hinton’s translation of The Late Poems of Wang An-Shih<\/em> \u738b\u5b89\u77f3 (New Directions). Wang was an economist, statesman, chancellor and poet of the Song Dynasty; he became prime minister, the publisher writes, “and in this position he instituted a controversial system of radically egalitarian social reforms to improve the lives of China’s peasants … It was after his retirement, practicing Ch’an (Zen) Buddhism and wandering the mountains around his home, that Wang An-shih wrote the poems that made his reputation. Short and plainspoken, these late poems contain profound multitudes the passing of time, rivers and mountains, silence and Buddhist emptiness.”<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.washingtonpost.com\/rw\/2010-2019\/WashingtonPost\/2015\/12\/08\/BookWorld\/Images\/Empty%20Chairs.jpg?resize=230%2C340&ssl=1\"){kind=spacer}
<\/a>up with a list of “The best poetry books for December<\/a>.” Included was Empty Chairs: Selected Poems<\/b> <\/em>by Liu Xia \u5218\u971e, (Graywolf)\uff0ctranslated by Ming Di and Jennifer Stern. The collection draws from thirty years of Liu\u2019s poetry, including what she’s written after she was placed under house following the imprisonment of her husband, Liu Xiaobo \u5218\u6653\u6ce2, who was sentenced for eleven years in 2009 (he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010). “In several of her chiseled poems,” the\u00a0Post\u00a0<\/em>writes, “Liu uses dolls to convey what she cannot\u2014and yet her voice still asserts itself, coming through bold and vital.” Empty Chairs <\/em>is also the only translation from Chinese to make it onto World Literature Today<\/em>‘s list of “75 Notable Translations of 2015<\/a>.”<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/images\/13052.jpg?resize=246%2C324\")
<\/a>, translators, and titles, I\u2019m pretty much positivie that these are the best collections I should\u2019ve read this year.” In this list he includes my translation October Dedications<\/em> by Mang Ke \u8292\u514b (Zephyr \/ Chinese University Press). The book isn’t actually out yet, but I can’t resist including it here because Chad writes, “Lucas Klein is a really stand-up guy who does a lot to promote Chinese poetry. He\u2019s also been a judge for the PEN<\/span> Translation Prize, and been mistaken for me at several ALTA<\/span> conferences … He also likes to get all up in my shit about mis-alphabetizing Chinese authors in my various lists and posts. This is totally my fault, although it\u2019s not always that easy to figure out …The beauty of this list that I\u2019ve put together though is that, even if \u201cKe\u201d is his surname, this book is STILL<\/span> properly alphabetized. I CAN<\/span> NOT<\/span> BE BEATEN<\/span> TODAY<\/span>.” Congratulations, Chad. Mang Ke is a pseudonym, but yes, it should be alphabetized under M<\/em>. And since the book won’t be out until sometime later in 2016, you still have time to read it and put it on this year’s list again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"