{"id":3378,"date":"2016-01-20T09:30:47","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T01:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3378"},"modified":"2016-01-12T11:15:43","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T03:15:43","slug":"goodman-on-wang-xiaoni-on-new-books-in-east-asian-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3378","title":{"rendered":"Goodman on Wang Xiaoni on New Books in East Asian Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Carla Nappi interviews Eleanor Goodman about her translation of Something Crosses My Mind<\/a> <\/em>by Wang Xiaoni \u738b\u5c0f\u59ae. From the intro:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Goodman offers a fascinating introduction to the work of this “poet of place.” Wang’s poetry evokes a sense of dislocation and distances traveled, a sense of isolation while being embedded in a community of everyday material and nonhuman beings \u2013 corn and pigs, peanuts and windows, potatoes and blades, dust and mountains, farmers and colors. In the course of our conversation we talked about the challenges and opportunities of the translator’s practice, and Goodman was exceptionally generous in reading several of her beautiful translations and guiding us through some of the most powerful and evocative moments therein.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click the image above or listen here.<\/p>\n

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