{"id":629,"date":"2012-01-16T10:14:51","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T02:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=629"},"modified":"2012-01-16T10:14:51","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T02:14:51","slug":"almost-island-winter-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=629","title":{"rendered":"Almost Island Winter 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Winter 2012 issue of Almost Island<\/a> is finally here, featuring an essay Xi Chuan wrote in English titled “Style Comes as a Reward<\/a>,” his prose poem “What the Tang Did Not Have<\/a>” \u5510\u671d\u6240\u6c92\u6709\u7684 in my translation, and my translation of “The Original Way<\/a>” \u539f\u9053 by Tang Dynasty man of letters Han Yu \u97d3\u6108 (768 – 824), which should be provocative on its own but also provides some historical context for Xi Chuan’s prose poem.<\/p>\n

The issue also includes poetry by Amanda Berenguer<\/a> translated by Kent Johnson, an essay by Ravi Shankar titled “The Geology and Physics of Style<\/a>,” new poems by Stephen Burt<\/a>, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Winter 2012 issue of Almost Island is finally here, featuring an essay Xi Chuan wrote in English titled “Style Comes as a Reward,” his prose poem “What the Tang Did Not Have” \u5510\u671d\u6240\u6c92\u6709\u7684 in my translation, and my translation … 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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,12,7],"tags":[325,321,319,322,323,240,324,320,1654],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-a9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":429,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=429","url_meta":{"origin":629,"position":0},"title":"Almost Island","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"December 18, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"In honor of the upcoming China - India Writers Dialogues, I wanted to point out the journal Almost Island, whose editors Sharmistha Mohanty and Vivek Narayanan have been organizing the Dialogues. See also the Almost Island publication of Mohanty's essay on her experiences in China, \"Mountains and Rivers\"; Xi Chuan\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "India-China Writers Dialogues"","block_context":{"text":"India-China Writers Dialogues","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=282"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2972,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2972","url_meta":{"origin":629,"position":1},"title":"Xi Chuan at Almost Island","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"January 1, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"In their new issue, south-Asian journal Almost Island has published a transcription Xi Chuan gave with Vivek Narayanan in New Delhi in December, 2013 (along with some excerpts read from Notes on the Mosquito), titled \"Doubting Yourself and the World at Once.\" Here's a passage: I think, to be creative\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Links"","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2312,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2312","url_meta":{"origin":629,"position":2},"title":"Almost Island Dialogues","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"December 19, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Almost Island is a space for literature that threatens, confronts, or bypasses the marketplace. 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In the first is, from the top left, Xi Chuan, Li Tuo \u674e\u9640, Lydia Liu \u5218\u79be, Zhong Yurou \u949f\u96e8\u67d4, Kabir Mohanty, Ge Fei \u683c\u975e, with Sharmistha Mohanty, Bei Dao \u5317\u5c9b, Ashwini Bhat, and Ouyang Jianghe\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "India-China Writers Dialogues"","block_context":{"text":"India-China Writers Dialogues","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=282"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xichuanpoetry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/India-China-Writers-Dialogues-group-photo-1024x390.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xichuanpoetry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/India-China-Writers-Dialogues-group-photo-1024x390.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xichuanpoetry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/India-China-Writers-Dialogues-group-photo-1024x390.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":512,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=512","url_meta":{"origin":629,"position":4},"title":"India-China Writers Dialogues","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"December 15, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Xi Chuan will be traveling to Mumbai soon for the India-China Writers Dialogues. Here is a press release along with a schedule of speakers: The online literature journal Almost Island, founded and edited by novelist Sharmistha Mohanty along with poet Vivek Narayanan, has begun a dialogue with mainland Chinese writers.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "India-China Writers Dialogues"","block_context":{"text":"India-China Writers Dialogues","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=282"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":431,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=431","url_meta":{"origin":629,"position":5},"title":"“In the Shadow of the Oxymoron”","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"November 30, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I have referred a couple of times (here and here) to Xi Chuan's poetics of the oxymoron, and how it's related to current Chinese realities, so I thought I would link to an essay where he begins verbalizing such formulations. 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