{"id":709,"date":"2012-02-10T10:56:33","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T02:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=709"},"modified":"2012-02-10T10:56:33","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T02:56:33","slug":"jacob-edmonds-common-strangeness-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=709","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Edmond’s Common Strangeness Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Poetry translator and scholar Jacob Edmond<\/a> has a new blog to promote his forthcoming book, A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature<\/em> <\/a>(forthcoming from Fordham University Press). Using Walter Benjamin<\/a>‘s take on Baudelaire <\/a>and fl\u00e2nerie<\/em> <\/a>to take a new look at World Literature, Edmond reads Chinese poets Yang Lian <\/a>\u694a\u7149 and Bei Dao<\/a> \u5317\u5cf6, Russian poets Arkadii Dragomoshchenko<\/a> and Dmitri Prigov<\/a>, and Americans Charles Bernstein<\/a> and Lyn Hejinian<\/a>. The blog, and especially the book, both promise to be fascinating reads.<\/p>\n

While Xi Chuan has less to do with exile, often central to critical discussions of Bei Dao and Yang Lian, I’m sure that Common Strangeness<\/em>, and common strangenesses, will also be helpful in providing tools to understand both the Chinese and international aspects of the writing of Xi Chuan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Poetry translator and scholar Jacob Edmond has a new blog to promote his forthcoming book, A Common Strangeness: Contemporary Poetry, Cross-Cultural Encounter, Comparative Literature (forthcoming from Fordham University Press). Using Walter Benjamin‘s take on Baudelaire and fl\u00e2nerie to take a … 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":[3,31,12,16,7],"tags":[66,50,317,27,356,354,357,355,1654,21],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-br","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":746,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=746","url_meta":{"origin":709,"position":0},"title":"I\u00a0got a surprise mention from\u2026","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"February 24, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I\u00a0got a surprise mention from Jacob Edmond the other day on his Common Strangeness blog: discussing the benefit of getting students to appreciate the role of the translator in poetry translation by having asking \"them to read several contrasting translations of the same poem,\" he said: Bei Dao \u5317\u5c9b and\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":784,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=784","url_meta":{"origin":709,"position":1},"title":"Short Takes on Long Poems","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"March 10, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"At the end of the month I'll be traveling to New Zealand for a conference, where I'll be presenting on what happens to Ezra Pound's notion of the \"ideogrammic method\" when it shows up in Chinese \"epic\" poetry, specifically the works of Yang Lian \u694a\u7149 and Xi Chuan. 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Brian Reed's \"Chances of Rhyme\": The words transnational and globalization appear frequently within scholarship on contemporary poetry, but so far there have been few sustained attempts to narrate recent developments across more than two language-groups or geographical regions. ...\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Links"","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-scbv1Njt6jI\/UaT9TAqCXnI\/AAAAAAAAAz4\/4okyQ_BQiZU\/s320\/edmond.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2260,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2260","url_meta":{"origin":709,"position":4},"title":"A Common Strangeness runner-up for ASAP 2013 Prize","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"November 1, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Jacob Edmond's A Common Strangeness has been named runner-up for the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present 2013 Book Prize. 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