{"id":632,"date":"2012-01-17T09:39:45","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T01:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=632"},"modified":"2012-01-17T09:39:45","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T01:39:45","slug":"january-2012-issue-of-asymptote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=632","title":{"rendered":"January 2012 Issue of Asymptote"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>The January 2012 issue of Asymptote <\/a>is now online, featuring Xi Chuan<\/a>‘s “Beast” \u5de8\u517d, “The Distance” \u8fdc\u65b9, and “Poison” \u6bd2\u836f, in my translations. You can also hear a recording of “The Distance” read in Chinese by Huang Yin-Nan.<\/p>\n

This issue also hosts a great range of international writing, especially when it comes to writing in Chinese: there’s Xi Chuan’s friend Ouyang Jianghe<\/a> \u6b27\u9633\u6c5f\u6cb3, translated by Austin Woerner, and Taiwanese superstar poet Hsia Y\u00fc<\/a> \u590f\u5b87, translated by Steve Bradbury. And then there’s the Taiwan Fiction Feature<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Great to be included in that group!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The January 2012 issue of Asymptote is now online, featuring Xi Chuan‘s “Beast” \u5de8\u517d, “The Distance” \u8fdc\u65b9, and “Poison” \u6bd2\u836f, in my translations. You can also hear a recording of “The Distance” read in Chinese by Huang Yin-Nan. This issue … 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":[326,39,236,116,1654,201],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-ac","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3008,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3008","url_meta":{"origin":632,"position":0},"title":"Asymptote write-up of Ouyang Jianghe’s Phoenix","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"February 11, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Dylan Suher for Asymptote writes on Austin Woerner's translation of Phoenix \u51e4\u51f0, by Ouyang Jianghe \u6b27\u9633\u6c5f\u6cb3 (after a sculpture by Xu Bing \u5f90\u51b0) (Zephyr, 2014): This excellent Zephyr Books edition packages the poem together with pictures of the sculpture, and, in what happily seems to be becoming the norm, places\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Links"","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.asymptotejournal.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Phoenix2infliteUSE.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1052,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1052","url_meta":{"origin":632,"position":1},"title":"Asymptote July 2012","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"July 24, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The new issue of Asymptote is out, featuring work by Rosmarie Waldrop, plus A Sinophone \"20 under 40,\" as well as: \"The Pocketwatch,\" a new translation of a Huang Chunming story (by Howard Goldblatt) Translations of Yang Mu's poetry (by Arthur Sze and Michelle Yeh) Translations of Ye Mimi's poetry\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":3620,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3620","url_meta":{"origin":632,"position":2},"title":"Eleanor Goodman on Contemporary Chinese Poetry from Zephyr","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"February 13, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"As part of Paper Republic's series of blogs for Global Literature in Libraries throughout\u00a0February, Eleanor Goodman writes on Zephyr Press, which she says \"has done more to raise the profile of contemporary Chinese poetry in English translation than any other press today\": Their books are carefully curated, well edited, and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Links"","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/glliusorg.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/02\/somethingcrosses_w.jpg?w=350&h=200&crop=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3460,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=3460","url_meta":{"origin":632,"position":3},"title":"Lantz on Phoenix","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"March 23, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Tim Lantz at the LA Review reviews Phoenix \u51e4\u51f0, by Ouyang Jianghe \u6b27\u9633\u6c5f\u6cb3 as translated by Austin Woerner: It\u2019s not hard to see why Ouyang Jianghe considers Phoenix his magnum opus. 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