{"id":4623,"date":"2019-07-19T20:30:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T12:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4623"},"modified":"2019-07-10T10:15:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T02:15:22","slug":"goodmans-lok-fung-reviewed-at-hkrb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4623","title":{"rendered":"Goodman’s Lok Fung reviewed at HKRB"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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May Huang’s review of <\/a>Days When I Hide My Corpse in a Cardboard Box<\/a><\/em>, poems by Lok Fung translated by Eleanor Goodman.<\/a> <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Hong Kong Review of Books <\/em>has published May Huang’s review <\/a>of Days When I Hide My Corpse in a Cardboard Box<\/em>, poems by Lok Fung \u6d1b\u6953 translated by Eleanor Goodman (Zephyr Press).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s a striking–and, I think, apt–line:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pressures placed on women to appear young and stay beautiful are closely tied to systems of oppression inflicted upon the city itself. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Huang also pays attention to the translation–as all reviews of translated literature must, if they are to be worthwhile at all–and the multilingualism of the book and of life in Hong Kong:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the visual effect of seeing English words amid a Chinese text disappears in the English translation, Goodman deftly captures the multilingual qualities of Lok\u2019s poetics nonetheless. In \u201cTracks of Emotion,\u201d Lok cites the English lyrics to Vanessa Williams\u2019 \u201cSave the Best for Last\u201d in an otherwise Cantonese poem set in the train station. In Goodman\u2019s translation, her use of the word \u201ctracks\u201d becomes an instance of clever wordplay, as it refers to both song tracks and train tracks. In other poems, rhymes in the English beautifully echo or complement the original Chinese: \u201cI am low as a cello\u201d and \u201cI am slayed, I rot \/ powerless whether I love or not\u201d are two instances. The book itself, which is printed in parallel texts, speaks to the multivalences that translation can expose\u2014as does the Hong Kong Atlas series, the first to exclusively spotlight Hong Kong poetry in translation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click here <\/a>for the review in full.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hong Kong Review of Books has published May Huang’s review of Days When I Hide My Corpse in a Cardboard Box, poems by Lok Fung \u6d1b\u6953 translated by Eleanor Goodman (Zephyr Press). Here’s a striking–and, I think, apt–line: The pressures … 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":[388,1665,1254],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-1cz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4151,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4151","url_meta":{"origin":4623,"position":0},"title":"Seattle Review of Books Interview with Eleanor Goodman on Lok Fung","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"July 18, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Word on the street is that Days When I Hide My Corpse in a Cardboard Box \u81ea\u6211\u7d19\u76d2\u85cf\u5c4d\u7684\u65e5\u5b50, the selected poems of Lok Fung \u6d1b\u6953 (Natalia Chan), translated by Eleanor Goodman, is back from the printers. 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