{"id":857,"date":"2012-04-19T10:18:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T02:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=857"},"modified":"2012-04-19T10:21:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T02:21:35","slug":"lucas-klein-on-zhai-yongmings-changing-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=857","title":{"rendered":"Lucas Klein on Zhai Yongming’s Changing Room"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>My review of the first book-length collection to appear in English of contemporary Chinese poet Zhai Yongming \u7fdf\u6c38\u660e, Changing Room<\/em> (Zephyr Press<\/a>) translated by Andrea Lingenfelter<\/a>, is now online at Rain Taxi<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s how I begin the review:<\/p>\n

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S<\/span>ome poets write about the problems of language and indeterminacy; some write about society and culture; some write about gender. Zhai Yongming, China\u2019s pre-eminent contemporary woman poet whose work has finally been published in book form in English, is unique in her ability to combine all three dimensions\u2014the interpretive function, social change, and being a woman\u2014into one relentlessly strong poetic expression.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My review of the first book-length collection to appear in English of contemporary Chinese poet Zhai Yongming \u7fdf\u6c38\u660e, Changing Room (Zephyr Press) translated by Andrea Lingenfelter, is now online at Rain Taxi. Here’s how I begin the review: Some poets … 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":[3,12,16],"tags":[491,51],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-dP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":886,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=886","url_meta":{"origin":857,"position":0},"title":"ALTA Links Round-up","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"April 28, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Over at ALTAlk, the blog for the American Literary Translators Association, Matt Rowe has posted a Links Round-up of some of the news & articles focusing on translation that have been circulating recently. 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He writes: Other English versions of some of these poems are accessible on the internet ... Various readers may prefer various translations of various poems, but Lingenfelter\u2019s volume provides an added plus in that she\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":2067,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2067","url_meta":{"origin":857,"position":4},"title":"Zhai Yongming & Andrea Lingenfelter at Kubrick Beijing","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"June 27, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 Zhai Yongming \u7fdf\u6c38\u660e and her translator Andrea Lingenfelter will be reading at Kubrick Beijing, Sunday, June 30th, 3:00 - 5 p.m.","rel":"","context":"In "Links"","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":898,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=898","url_meta":{"origin":857,"position":5},"title":"Zhai Yongming wins Italian literary prize","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"May 3, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Zhai Yongming \u7fdf\u6c38\u660e has just won Italy's Piero Bigongiari del Ceppo di Pistoia prize for 2012. 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