{"id":4043,"date":"2018-04-30T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T01:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4043"},"modified":"2018-04-29T08:39:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T00:39:29","slug":"4043","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4043","title":{"rendered":"October Dedications by Mang Ke"},"content":{"rendered":"
Announcing October Dedications<\/em><\/a>, the selected poems of Mang Ke \u8292\u514b<\/span>, edited and translated by Lucas Klein, with further translations by Huang Yibing and Jonathan Stalling\u2014part of the Jintian <\/em>series jointly published by Zephyr and The Chinese University Press.<\/div>\n
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<\/a>Mang Ke (b. 1950, penname of Jiang Shiwei \u59dc\u4e16\u4f1f<\/span>) began writing poetry as a sent-down youth in Baiyangdian, rural Hebei province, during the Cultural Revolution. As co-founder of the PRC\u2019s first unofficial literary journal Jintian<\/em> (Today<\/em>) in 1978, he is one of the progenitors of what would later be called Obscure or \u201cMisty\u201d Poetry, with spare, impressionistic poems that were among the first to break free of the imposed discourse of Maoism towards an image-based literary style that left space for both expression and interpretation. He currently makes his living as an abstract painter and lives in Songzhuang, an artists\u2019 colony on the outskirts of Beijing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cMang Ke\u2019s poems are radical in their immediacy, exploring the vexed space between public world and private experience, honing in on the gap between with sometimes uncanny directness \u2026 I don\u2019t think I have ever read anything quite like it.\u201d
\n\u2014Rae Armantrout<\/p>\n

\u201cMang Ke is a genius amongst contemporary Chinese poets. In a dark age, his early lyric poems were unparalleled\u2013translucent, profound, and enchanting.\u201d
\n\u2014Bei Dao<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For further information, including how to order, see the pages at Chinese University Press<\/a> or Zephyr<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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