{"id":3556,"date":"2016-09-23T09:30:37","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T01:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3556"},"modified":"2016-09-21T21:48:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T13:48:23","slug":"chinese-poetry-in-the-lucien-stryk-shortlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3556","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Poetry in the Lucien Stryk Shortlist"},"content":{"rendered":"

The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) has announced the 2016 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize<\/a> shortlist, including two books that are translations from the Chinese, by Hai Zi \u6d77\u5b50 and Wang Anshi \u738b\u5b89\u77f3:<\/p>\n

\"zi_cover\"Ripened Wheat: Selected Poems of Hai Zi<\/em>
\nBy Hai Zi
\nTranslated from the Chinese by Ye Chun
\n(The Bitter Oleander Press)<\/p>\n

Hai Zi is one of China\u2019s most beloved poets, whose suicide at the age of 25, just months before the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, catapulted him to a fame that is almost mythic in proportions. Although his poetic oeuvre is relatively small, his archetypal descriptions of a rural and natural world now virtually extinguished by industrialization, have\u00a0a lyric intensity that is richly evocative:<\/p>\n

Sunlight<\/p>\n

Pear flowers
\narise along the dirt wall
\nCow bells dinging<\/p>\n

Auntie brings my nephews over
\nThey stand\u00a0in front of me
\nlike two charcoal sticks<\/p>\n

Sunlight is in fact very strong
\nWhip and blood for all that grows!<\/p>\n

Ye Chun is not the first translator to represent Hai Zi\u2019s poetry in English, but her generous selection of poems and informative preface provide\u00a0an excellent introduction to this marvelous poet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and
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\nThe Late Poems of Wang An-Shih<\/em>
\nBy Wang An-Shih
\nTranslated from the Chinese by David Hinton
\n(New Directions)<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

David Hinton has long been accepted as one of the premier translators of ancient Chinese texts. He has translated not only collections of the essential poets Li Po, Tu Fu, Wang Wei, Po Ch\u00fc-i and others, but also given us new interpretations of the I Ching, the Analects, and the Tao Te Ching. In this new translation, Hinton brings us the less well-known Sung poet Wang An-shih, an eccentric figure and brilliant poet.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t see anything of this autumn day,
\nits last few scraps of yellow in treetops.<\/p>\n

Out with my goosefoot staff, I think of
\nserene fields, but looking find no light.<\/p>\n

Hinton captures the Chan Buddhist background of the poet and the freely roaming nature of his later life in finely-wrought language and vivid images. This is an important collection rendered beautifully into English.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This year\u2019s judges are Steve Bradbury, Eleanor\u00a0Goodman, and Kendall Heitzman. Click either image for the full list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) has announced the 2016 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize shortlist, including two books that are translations from the Chinese, by Hai Zi \u6d77\u5b50 and Wang Anshi \u738b\u5b89\u77f3: Ripened Wheat: Selected Poems of Hai Zi … 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":[434,388,144,1520,1737,1736,116,1690,1728,234],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-Vm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3273,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3273","url_meta":{"origin":3556,"position":0},"title":"Lucien Stryk Award Shortlist","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"September 16, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"ALTA has posted the shortlist for this year's Lucien Stryk Award, which honors book-length translations into English of poetry or Zen Buddhist texts from Hindi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean into English. 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