{"id":3485,"date":"2016-04-27T09:30:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T01:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3485"},"modified":"2016-04-26T00:05:22","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T16:05:22","slug":"admussen-on-mang-ke-ashbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3485","title":{"rendered":"Admussen on Mang Ke & Ashbery"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>At the Boston Review<\/a>, Nick Admussen writes about the language of John Ashbery and Mang Ke \u8292\u514b–especially in “Sunflower in the Sun” \u9633\u5149\u4e2d\u7684\u5411\u65e5\u8475 as translated by Jonathan Stalling and Huang Yibing (and forthcoming in my October Dedications <\/em>from Zephyr <\/a>and Chinese University Press<\/a>)–in light of recent political protests.<\/span><\/p>\n

Admussen writes:<\/span><\/p>\n

One cannot always feel the mark of past violence in poems written later, during a time of relative peace, but such feeling is evident in the work of the poet Mang Ke, who lived and wrote through that intense moment of transition when the organized and disorganized political violence of Maoist China gave way to the uncertain openness of the early Deng era … It is possible to read this complex tableau through familiar psychological categories: PTSD, the epidemiology of violence, the mirror neuron. But I prefer to understand the poem as an aesthetic rather than deterministic reaction: we make decisions about how to construct our lives around the violence in our history. The stories we tell and the relationships we draw are like works of art, escapist, realist, obscure, lyrical, or haunted, all tethered to but not defined by the experience of the creation of pain in others.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And on Ashbery, he sees “some small proportion of Ashbery\u2019s late poems as having a thereness-but-not-presence, an abstract understanding of a distant and unsensual truth.”<\/p>\n

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

At the Boston Review, Nick Admussen writes about the language of John Ashbery and Mang Ke \u8292\u514b–especially in “Sunflower in the Sun” \u9633\u5149\u4e2d\u7684\u5411\u65e5\u8475 as translated by Jonathan Stalling and Huang Yibing (and forthcoming in my October Dedications from Zephyr and … 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":[230,215,210,126,664],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-Ud","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5077,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=5077","url_meta":{"origin":3485,"position":0},"title":"Horton Reviews Mang Ke’s October Dedications","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"January 19, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"October Dedications, the selected poems of Mang Ke \u8292\u514b (Chinese UP & Zephyr), translated by Lucas Klein with Jonathan Stalling and Yibing Huang, has been reviewed in Cha by Harrison Horton. 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