{"id":3480,"date":"2016-04-20T09:30:48","date_gmt":"2016-04-20T01:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3480"},"modified":"2016-04-19T22:04:27","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T14:04:27","slug":"turners-lu-xun-in-seedings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3480","title":{"rendered":"Turner’s Lu Xun in Seedings"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"seedings1-f-cover\"<\/a>Issue 1 of the new journal Seedings<\/a> <\/em>is now out, featuring a great collection of work by some of English’s best poets: Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Nathaniel Tarn, Rosmarie Waldrop, Will Alexander… and translators: Keith Waldrop (Paul Verlaine), Cole Swensen (Jaime Montestrela), Johannes G\u00f6ransson (Sara Tuss Efrik)…<\/p>\n

Worth mention on this blog are the three new translations by Matt Turner of prose poems by Lu Xun \u9b6f\u8fc5. From “Waking” \u4e00\u89ba:<\/p>\n

Planes on a mission to drop bombs, like the start of class at school every morning, fly over Beijing. Everytime I hear the sound of their parts pound the air I repeatedly feel a light tension, as though witnessing a \u201cdeath\u201d raid. But at the same time intensely feeling the \u201cbirth\u201d of existence.<\/p>\n

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Click the image above to access the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Issue 1 of the new journal Seedings is now out, featuring a great collection of work by some of English’s best poets: Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Nathaniel Tarn, Rosmarie Waldrop, Will Alexander… and translators: Keith Waldrop (Paul Verlaine), Cole Swensen (Jaime … 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":[111,1713,1061,1711,383,1710,58,1712,269,270,1714,353],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-U8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1829,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1829","url_meta":{"origin":3480,"position":0},"title":"Notes on the Mosquito a Finalist for Best Translated Book Award!","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"April 11, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"From the Poetry Foundation & the Three Percent blog: John Felstiner said translation is like a window. 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