{"id":5075,"date":"2022-01-10T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=5075"},"modified":"2022-01-09T19:27:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T02:27:21","slug":"duo-duos-words-as-grain-nominated-for-pen-award-for-poetry-in-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=5075","title":{"rendered":"Duo Duo’s Words as Grain Nominated for PEN Award for Poetry in Translation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Words as Grain <\/em>on the 2021 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation longlist<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Last month PEN announced the longlists for its 2021 awards–and Words as Grain: New and Selected Poems<\/a><\/em> of Duo Duo \u591a\u591a (Yale University Press) is in the running for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation! Click here <\/a>to see all the longlisted nominees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Caro Carter, Michael Favala Goldman, Parisa Saranj are the other judges. Among the excellent books of poetry in translation also on the longlist, in Chinese poetry in translation there is also I Name Him Me: Selected Poems of Ma Yan<\/em>, translated by Stephen Nashef (Ugly Duckling Presse).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last month PEN announced the longlists for its 2021 awards–and Words as Grain: New and Selected Poems of Duo Duo \u591a\u591a (Yale University Press) is in the running for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation! 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