{"id":4298,"date":"2018-11-09T20:30:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T12:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4298"},"modified":"2018-11-08T23:13:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T15:13:05","slug":"lucas-klein-talking-translation-with-leeds-centre-for-new-chinese-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4298","title":{"rendered":"Lucas Klein Talking Translation with Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a follow-up to Xi Chuan’s being October 2018 author-of-the-month at the Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing, the Centre is now hosting a Talking Translation<\/a> interview with me!<\/p>\n

They ask, and I answer:<\/p>\n

Do you have any advice for readers new to Xi Chuan about where best to begin or how to approach his poetry?<\/strong><\/p>\n

My advice to new readers of Xi Chuan would be different depending on what those readers are used to reading, because he made a pretty big stylistic change in the early nineties. If you like well-crafted lyrical poems, calm and deep, then start with his earliest publications at the beginning of Notes on the Mosquito<\/em> and work your way through the whole book. If you like more expansive prose poems, long sequences, and the poetics of knowledge with a good sense of humor, then maybe skip Xi Chuan\u2019s earliest work and start with his prose poetry\u2014or what he calls \u201cpoessays\u201d\u2014coming back to his earlier lyrics later.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click the link above for the full interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As a follow-up to Xi Chuan’s being October 2018 author-of-the-month at the Leeds Centre for New Chinese Writing, the Centre is now hosting a Talking Translation interview with me! 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