{"id":3565,"date":"2016-10-21T09:30:11","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T01:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3565"},"modified":"2016-10-19T14:09:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T06:09:06","slug":"cornell-chronicle-on-admussens-recite-and-refuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3565","title":{"rendered":"Cornell Chronicle on Admussen’s Recite and Refuse"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Cornell Chronicle<\/em> has a write-up on Recite and Refuse<\/a>: Contemporary Chinese Prose Poetry<\/em>, by Cornell’s own Nick Admussen. “Nick Admussen began his study of Chinese prose poetry eight years ago with the expectation that the genre would be similar to its counterpart in Western literature,” the Chronicle <\/em>writes:<\/p>\n

nonconformist poems that reject the structures of most poetry. But … the Chinese poems shared a method in which they imitated some type of prose \u2013 whether it was an advertisement, a travelogue or political speech \u2013 and then altered it in some way…<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat surprised me the most when I started the process is I had read a lot of American and a lot of French prose poetry,\u201d Admussen said. \u201cI had read scholars from other languages, especially from France, who would argue that with prose poetry, it\u2019s this rebelliousness \u2013 breaking the rules of poetry and breaking the lines. But a lot of Chinese prose poetry tends toward the obedient.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Recite and Refuse<\/em> is now out from University of Hawai’i Press<\/a>. Click on the image above for the full write-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Cornell Chronicle has a write-up on Recite and Refuse: Contemporary Chinese Prose Poetry, by Cornell’s own Nick Admussen. “Nick Admussen began his study of Chinese prose poetry eight years ago with the expectation that the genre would be similar … 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":[664],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-Vv","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4033,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4033","url_meta":{"origin":3565,"position":0},"title":"Admussen’s Recite and Refuse on New Books in East Asian Studies","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"April 16, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Miranda Corcoran interviews Nick Admussen about his monograph Recite and Refuse: Contemporary Chinese Prose Poetry--about Lu Xun \u9c81\u8fc5, Bing Xin \u51b0\u5fc3, Ke Lan \u67ef\u84dd, Guo Feng \u90ed\u98ce, Liu Zaifu \u5218\u518d\u590d, Ouyang Jianghe \u6b27\u9633\u6c5f\u6cb3, Xi Chuan, and more--for New Books in East Asian Studies. 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