{"id":626,"date":"2012-01-15T10:11:34","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T02:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=626"},"modified":"2012-01-15T10:11:34","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T02:11:34","slug":"paul-manfredi-on-xi-chuan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=626","title":{"rendered":"Paul Manfredi on Xi Chuan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>At the china Avant-garde<\/a> blog Paul Manfredi <\/a>has posted his notes to the intro for Xi Chuan he gave at last week’s Seattle Public Library<\/a> reading. I particularly liked this paragraph:<\/p>\n

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To be influential in this context means more than finding a way to cause other poets to follow one\u2019s example in style or substance. It is a matter of literally finding a viable language in which to speak. Viability in terms of poetry relates to some form of authenticity, which means some form of “truth,\u201d a fact which separates literature generally but poetry in particular from other realms of linguistic experience. Think politics, where the opposite is the case\u2014Chinese politics in particular (though recent debates in the United States makes one think of this country as well): here we experience language not as something predicated on viability (it needs no such bolstering) or authenticity. Political language in China is not truth to power, it is power to truth.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Follow the links above for the whole piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the china Avant-garde blog Paul Manfredi has posted his notes to the intro for Xi Chuan he gave at last week’s Seattle Public Library reading. 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