{"id":3635,"date":"2017-02-20T09:30:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T01:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3635"},"modified":"2017-02-21T20:32:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T12:32:57","slug":"on-feeleys-xi-xi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3635","title":{"rendered":"Gao on Feeley’s Xi Xi"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"notwritten_w\"<\/a>At the Hong Kong Review of Books<\/em>, <\/a>Yunwen Gao reviews Jennifer Feeley’s translation of Not Written Words <\/em>\u4e0d\u662f\u6587\u5b57, by Xi Xi \u897f\u897f:<\/p>\n

Covering a wide range of poems from 1961 to 1999, Not Written Words<\/em> is the first collection of Xi Xi\u2019s poems selected from Stone Chimes<\/em> (1982) and The Selected Poems of Xi Xi: 1959-1999<\/em> (2000) translated in English. The 168-page book is a nicely edited collection with the original text in Chinese and the English translation facing each other, as well as translator\u2019s notes attached at the end of the book. Being multilingual and well-read in world literature, Xi Xi molds her poems into a versatile medium to connect literary traditions from different cultures and address issues across the globe. Her sources and influences include classical Chinese poetry and Western poetry. Readers will find references to French New Wave cinema (\u201cAt Marienbad\u201d), The Book of Songs <\/em>(\u201cPebble\u201d), Tang poems (\u201cMoon\u201d), English metaphysical poems (\u201cAria\u201d), Allan Ginsberg\u2019s poem \u201cA Supermarket in California\u201d (\u201cSupermarket\u201d) in her writing, to name just a few. Thanks to the translation, readers of world literature can learn more about Xi Xi\u2019s career as a poet in addition to her fictional writing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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At the Hong Kong Review of Books, Yunwen Gao reviews Jennifer Feeley’s translation of Not Written Words \u4e0d\u662f\u6587\u5b57, by Xi Xi \u897f\u897f: Covering a wide range of poems from 1961 to 1999, Not Written Words is the first collection of … 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":[1765,597,1522,1766],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-WD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3866,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3866","url_meta":{"origin":3635,"position":0},"title":"Feeley’s Xi Xi wins Lucien Stryk Prize","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"October 9, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Congratulations to Jennifer Feeley for winning the 2017 Lucien Stryk Prize for her translation of Not Written Words \u4e0d\u662f\u6587\u5b57, by Xi Xi \u897f\u897f!","rel":"","context":"In "Links"","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/literarytranslators.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/08\/notwritten_w.jpg?w=350&h=200&crop=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3813,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3813","url_meta":{"origin":3635,"position":1},"title":"Feeley’s Xi Xi on National Translation Award Longlist","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"June 28, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The National Translation Award Longlists for Poetry and Prose have been released--and Chinese poetry is represented in the form of Jennifer Feeley's translation of Not Written Words \u4e0d\u662f\u6587\u5b57, by Hong Kong writer Xi Xi \u897f\u897f. 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