{"id":800,"date":"2012-03-16T12:48:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T04:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=800"},"modified":"2012-03-16T12:48:36","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T04:48:36","slug":"ocean-of-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=800","title":{"rendered":"Ocean of Poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"header\" class=\"header-image header-rearrange-item-1\">\n<div id=\"top\" class=\"header-link-image header-link-top clearfix\"><a class=\"header-link-image-inside\" title=\"Ocean of Poetry\" href=\"http:\/\/poetrychina.net\/wp\" rel=\"home nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/poetrychina.net\/wp\/?headway-trigger=thumbnail&amp;src=%2Fwp%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2Fheadway%2Fheader-uploads%2Fheader_OceanPoetry2.gif&amp;q=90&amp;w=1000&amp;zc=0\" alt=\"Ocean of Poetry\" width=\"1000\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"header-link-image header-link-top clearfix\">I just found out about <a href=\"http:\/\/poetrychina.net\/wp\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ocean of Poetry<\/a>, a new website featuring all sorts of information and examples of classical Chinese poetry in English translation, edited by Stuart Carduner and translator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unc.edu\/~jpseaton\/\" target=\"_blank\">J. P. Seaton<\/a>. The translation of classical Chinese poetry over the past century has contributed to the development of changing aesthetics in English-language poetry, and this site&#8211;with translations and articles by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kenneth_Rexroth\" target=\"_blank\">Kenneth Rexroth<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Burton_Watson\" target=\"_blank\">Burton Watson<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gary_Snyder\" target=\"_blank\">Gary Snyder<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidhinton.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Hinton<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/web.whittier.edu\/barnstone\/TONY.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Barnstone<\/a>, and others&#8211;looks like a great resource for making those links a bit more explicit. And considering that one of the reasons Xi Chuan became so interested in ancient Chinese poetry was because of the force it exerted on twentieth-century English-language poets, this site should also be of interest to readers of contemporary Chinese poetry.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just found out about Ocean of Poetry, a new website featuring all sorts of information and examples of classical Chinese poetry in English translation, edited by Stuart Carduner and translator J. P. Seaton. The translation of classical Chinese poetry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=800\">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":[3,16,7],"tags":[436,434,435,437,30,438,433,1654],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-cU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4573,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4573","url_meta":{"origin":800,"position":0},"title":"Introduction to Chinese Poetry in Translation in SupChina","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"June 10, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"An introduction to Chinese poetry in translation: Five anthologies As part of SupChina's feature on poetry last month, translator Dave Haysom selected five books to introduce Chinese poetry in English translation: Chinese Poetic Writing\u00a0by Fran\u00e7ois Cheng (translated by Donald A. Riggs & Jerome P. Seaton), The New Directions Anthology of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Links&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xichuanpoetry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Chinese-poetry-anthologies-1266x650.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xichuanpoetry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Chinese-poetry-anthologies-1266x650.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xichuanpoetry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Chinese-poetry-anthologies-1266x650.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xichuanpoetry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Chinese-poetry-anthologies-1266x650.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xichuanpoetry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Chinese-poetry-anthologies-1266x650.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":144,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=144","url_meta":{"origin":800,"position":1},"title":"Translation &#038; Cultural Distinction","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"October 20, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"In his introduction to Xi Chuan and Zhou Zan from their 92nd St. Y reading on October 10th, Forrest Gander referred to something his Brown University colleague John Cayley had said about classical Chinese poetry in English translation. 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Again, if you don't read German, you can find\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Links&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=14","url_meta":{"origin":800,"position":3},"title":"Dialog on Poetry and Poetics: Chinese \/ American Poetry Conference","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"October 1, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Writing from Wuhan \u6b66\u6c49, where we've just wrapped up the CAAP conference titled and celebration of Marjorie Perloff's 80th birthday, with keynote speakers Charles Bernstein, Kenneth Goldsmith, and Chung Ling\u00a0\u937e\u73b2 (who translated two books of classical Chinese poetry with Kenneth Rexroth in the '70s). 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He discusses the relationship between Xu Zhimo \u5f90\u5fd7\u6469 and Rabindranath Tagore in the context of China, India, and the West and their impact on modern\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Links&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/EXzoF_StHIU\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":353,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=353","url_meta":{"origin":800,"position":5},"title":"BBC: When borrowing from China makes the US richer","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"November 19, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"When Xi Chuan and Zhou Zan were on their reading tour of the US promoting the Copper Canyon anthology Push Open the Window, the BBC caught up with them and interviewed them about Chinese poetry. On the 3rd of November they posted the article and video, titled \"When borrowing from\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Anthologies&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Anthologies","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=13"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xichuanpoetry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Xi_Chuan_BBC.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xichuanpoetry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Xi_Chuan_BBC.png?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xichuanpoetry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Xi_Chuan_BBC.png?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":802,"href":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions\/802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}