{"id":3511,"date":"2016-06-06T09:30:08","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T01:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3511"},"modified":"2016-06-06T09:43:09","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T01:43:09","slug":"bem-on-stallings-lost-wax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3511","title":{"rendered":"Bem on Stalling’s Lost Wax"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"lost<\/a>Queen Mob’s Teahouse<\/em> now features Greg Bem’s review of Lost Wax<\/em><\/a>, poems by Jonathan Stalling with Chinese and English re-translations by Zhou Yu, Yao Benbiao, Nick Admussen, Jennifer Feeley, Jami Proctor-Xu, Eleanor Goodman, Andrea Lingenfelter, and me. Here’s how it ends:<\/p>\n

Moving from poem to poem, curiosity strikes me: is the primary goal of this book to bring us toward an understanding of the nuances of multilingual and multi-personal translation? Is this just an editor\u2019s paradise to see how the process of a significant body of learned, engaged writers see the shape of a work? If there some collective meaning across the pages? By the end of the book, I hoped for commentary. I hope for more \u201cmeta.\u201d An afterward from or an interview between the technicians. But in its absence, I was left with my own thoughts and theories (and a drive to learn some Chinese) in hopes of getting towards an understanding of what the core meaning of \u201clost wax\u201d really is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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

Queen Mob’s Teahouse now features Greg Bem’s review of Lost Wax, poems by Jonathan Stalling with Chinese and English re-translations by Zhou Yu, Yao Benbiao, Nick Admussen, Jennifer Feeley, Jami Proctor-Xu, Eleanor Goodman, Andrea Lingenfelter, and me. 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