{"id":3442,"date":"2016-03-09T09:30:18","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T01:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3442"},"modified":"2016-02-26T22:50:13","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T14:50:13","slug":"mohabir-on-bradburys-hsia-yu-at-jacket2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3442","title":{"rendered":"Mohabir on Bradbury’s Hsia Yu at Jacket2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rajiv Mohabir reviews Steve Bradbury’s translation of Salsa<\/em>, by Hsia Y\u00fc , for Imaginative Reading <\/a>at Jacket2:<\/div>\n

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Translator Steve Bradbury says in his endnotes that this collection can be seen as a post-impressionist Proustian po\u00e8me-\u00e0-clef<\/em> that lends itself to \u201cimaginative readings.\u201d For Bradbury, the importance of the poem is in its multiple significations and readings. It\u2019s clear Bradbury preserved the musicality of the line, which is a feature of poetry that can be impossible yet imperative to translate given social distance and dissimilarities between linguistic groups. Preserving or transposing the sonorous quality of Taiwanese Chinese into English, Bradbury realizes Y\u00fc\u2019s extraordinary wordplay.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Rajiv Mohabir reviews Steve Bradbury’s translation of Salsa, by Hsia Y\u00fc , for Imaginative Reading at Jacket2: Translator Steve Bradbury says in his endnotes that this collection can be seen as a post-impressionist Proustian po\u00e8me-\u00e0-clef that lends itself to \u201cimaginative … 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":[761,1703,1702,116,201],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-Tw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3049,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3049","url_meta":{"origin":3442,"position":0},"title":"Morse on Bradbury’s Hsia Y\u00fc","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"March 2, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"At Paper Republic Canaan Morse reviews Salsa by Hsia Y\u00fc \u590f\u5b87 as translated by Steve Bradbury: In order to recreate these transformative linguistic effects, Bradbury uses assonances, parallel structures, and rhymes with English words that may not appear in the original. 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