{"id":52,"date":"2011-10-05T10:43:40","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T02:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=52"},"modified":"2011-10-30T19:13:44","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T11:13:44","slug":"xi-chuan-reading-twilight-%e6%9a%ae%e8%89%b2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"Xi Chuan reading &#8220;Twilight&#8221; \u66ae\u8272"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who can&#8217;t make it to any of Xi Chuan&#8217;s readings in the US this fall (or for those who want a taste of future readings), here&#8217;s a short clip of him from the 2009 International Literary Festival at the <a href=\"http:\/\/beijingbookworm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beijing Bookworm<\/a>, reading an earlier draft of my translation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pen.org\/viewmedia.php\/prmMID\/3294\/prmID\/1502\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Twilight&#8221; \u66ae\u8272<\/a> accompanied by &#8220;multiple flutist&#8221; Bruce Gremo on the celia.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EM-VPEQ2iuY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who can&#8217;t make it to any of Xi Chuan&#8217;s readings in the US this fall (or for those who want a taste of future readings), here&#8217;s a short clip of him from the 2009 International Literary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=52\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9,11,7],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-Q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1797,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1797","url_meta":{"origin":52,"position":0},"title":"&#8216;Lights Have Entered Us&#8217;: Jeffrey Yang on Time of Grief","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"April 5, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"New Directions editor Jeffrey Yang has a piece at The Atlantic about George Oppen & Time of Grief: Mourning Poems, an assemblage of international poetry he recently edited. 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