{"id":4749,"date":"2020-03-09T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4749"},"modified":"2020-03-03T22:12:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T14:12:03","slug":"mitchell-on-yips-arrivals-and-departures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4749","title":{"rendered":"Mitchell on Yip’s Arrivals and Departures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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R<\/a>eid Mitchell reviews by Wai-Lim Yip’s Arrivals and Departures <\/em>for Cha<\/em><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Writing for Cha<\/em>, Reid Mitchell reviews Arrivals and Departures<\/em><\/a>: Poems, Memoir, and Chronology<\/em> (Musical Stone, 2017) by Wai-Lim Yip \u8449\u7dad\u5ec9. He writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I wish to encourage everyone to read Yip\u2019s Arrivals and Departures<\/em>, please permit me to end here with this poem. Before I started this review, I knew I could easily persuade you that this is an important book; it is far more important to convince you these are wonderful poems. This is the moment when, on the vast canvas of a Chinese painting of a majestic mountain, you spot the traveller on the winding path or the small house, its chimney spoking\u2014the human figure that makes a mountain a mountain, a painting a painting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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

Writing for Cha, Reid Mitchell reviews Arrivals and Departures: Poems, Memoir, and Chronology (Musical Stone, 2017) by Wai-Lim Yip \u8449\u7dad\u5ec9. 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