{"id":3381,"date":"2016-01-18T09:30:28","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T01:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3381"},"modified":"2016-01-12T11:15:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T03:15:11","slug":"3381","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3381","title":{"rendered":"Roberts & Chen on Li Shangyin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Li_Chao-tao_001\"<\/a>Chloe Garcia Roberts and Guangchen Chen \u9673\u5ee3\u741b<\/span> talk about Li Shangyin \u674e\u5546\u96b1 at The Critical Flame<\/a><\/em>. Roberts says:<\/p>\n

The poem opens with the sounds of imminence, the Eastern Wind, and with these rustlings of the approaching rain the rain arrives. Where? To the subject. Who is not there, to the reader who is not named, to the I. Here. By not giving you a subject, the I is fractured, you are there, he is there, the I is there. In the next line the focus moves back out, beyond (\u5916<\/em>) to another sound which calls our\/the I\u2019s attention, out on the horizon, the edge of hearing\/awareness, the thunder, and just like that in the first pair of couplets, Li Shangyin has succeeded in pulling us forcefully into this poem along the path of sound and then repelled us back out also following sound at an incredible, almost breakneck speed. We are stunned, disoriented, and thus in the perfect state to descend further into his world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She’s talking about this poem, and her translation:<\/p>\n

Untitled<\/p>\n

Rush, rustling of the East Wind, a fine rain arrives
\nBeyond the Lotus Pool, is a delicate thunder<\/p>\n

Golden Toad bites the lock, burning perfume enters
\nJade Tiger weights the cord above the water well, circling<\/p>\n

Young Secretary Han: glimpsed by Lady Jia though curtains, briefly
\nTalented King Wei: bequeathed Princess Fu\u2019s pillow, only afterward<\/p>\n

Spring Heart, refrain from competing with flowers in effusion
\nOne measure of longing, one measure of ash<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Click the image above for the dialogue in full.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chloe Garcia Roberts and Guangchen Chen \u9673\u5ee3\u741b talk about Li Shangyin \u674e\u5546\u96b1 at The Critical Flame. Roberts says: The poem opens with the sounds of imminence, the Eastern Wind, and with these rustlings of the approaching rain the rain arrives. … 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":[3,16],"tags":[401,1692,402],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s8srwF-3381","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2337,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2337","url_meta":{"origin":3381,"position":0},"title":"Li Shangyin & Chloe Garcia Roberts in the Harvard Gazette","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"December 17, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The Harvard Gazette has a feature on Chloe Garcia Roberts and her translation of Derangements of My Contemporaries \u7fa9\u5c71\u96dc\u7e82 by Li Shangyin \u674e\u5546\u96b1, forthcoming from New Directions. 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