{"id":845,"date":"2012-04-15T12:08:40","date_gmt":"2012-04-15T04:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=845"},"modified":"2012-04-15T12:08:40","modified_gmt":"2012-04-15T04:08:40","slug":"back-cover-blurbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=845","title":{"rendered":"Back Cover Blurbs"},"content":{"rendered":"

As one who has had the good fortune to see and hear Xi Chuan for some years, publication of Notes on the Mosquito<\/em><\/a> affords the long-anticipated pleasure of reading him. And what a pleasure: this book, with translator Lucas Klein’s introduction, Xi Chuan’s own Afterword, and its bilingual presentation of the poems, is a literary highlight of the year. The sensibility in these poems is unlike anything else in my reading–unique in its knowing, range, humor, smartness–and yet with a humility, an awareness of things larger and older. It will be fun putting this in other readers’ hands.<\/p>\n

–Rick Simonson, Elliott Bay Book Company<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As one who has had the good fortune to see and hear Xi Chuan for some years, publication of Notes on the Mosquito affords the long-anticipated pleasure of reading him. 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