{"id":3830,"date":"2017-08-07T09:30:34","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T01:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3830"},"modified":"2017-08-07T09:15:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T01:15:39","slug":"stern-and-ming-dis-liu-xia-on-poetry-northwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3830","title":{"rendered":"Stern and Ming Di’s Liu Xia on Poetry Northwest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poetry Northwest <\/a>has published Jennifer Stern’s and Ming Di’s translations of poems by Liu Xia \u5218\u971e, the missing widow of Liu Xiaobo \u5218\u6653\u6ce2<\/span>. Stern writes in her introduction:<\/p>\n

Many of us here read and write poems to know that we exist, and that we are entwined with others through an art form that exists all over the world. Liu Xia is one of us, a poet. I wish there was one way to stop the erasure of a human, but I don\u2019t think there is. Yet we can do this: read Liu Xia\u2019s poems. They exist. We can enjoy them, or not. We can argue with them. We can pass them on to a friend and say, \u201cRead this, this poet exists.\u201d We can teach her poems or keep them for ourselves. We exist. And because of that, Liu Xia\u2019s poems can speak even when her voice can\u2019t be heard. I want to believe that it\u2019s harder to erase this person, specific in her words and life, when we\u2019re in the middle of a conversation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Poetry Northwest has published Jennifer Stern’s and Ming Di’s translations of poems by Liu Xia \u5218\u971e, the missing widow of Liu Xiaobo \u5218\u6653\u6ce2. Stern writes in her introduction: Many of us here read and write poems to know that we … 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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[895,1691,556,553,404],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-ZM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4113,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4113","url_meta":{"origin":3830,"position":0},"title":"Shankar on Liu Xia’s Empty Chairs","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"June 22, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Ravi Shankar, writing at the\u00a0Mascara Literary Review, reviews Empty Chairs by Liu Xia \u5218\u971e (widow of Liu Xiaobo \u5218\u6653\u6ce2), translated by Ming Di and Jennifer Stern (Graywolf): Yes, she has played an inextricable role in the chronicle of her husband\u2019s imprisonment and his global prominence as a face of Chinese\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Links"","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mascarareview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Empty-Chairs-200x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3818,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3818","url_meta":{"origin":3830,"position":1},"title":"Graywolf Press on the Death of Liu Xiaobo","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"July 14, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Liu Xiaobo\u00a0\u5218\u6653\u6ce2, human rights activist, 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and poet, died on July 13, 2017--less than a month after he was granted medical parole for a terminal liver cancer diagnosis. 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