{"id":944,"date":"2012-05-28T09:16:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T01:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=944"},"modified":"2012-05-28T09:16:21","modified_gmt":"2012-05-28T01:16:21","slug":"michelle-yeh-on-dan-murphys-translation-of-over-autumn-rooftops-poems-by-hai-zi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=944","title":{"rendered":"Michelle Yeh on Dan Murphy’s translation of Over Autumn Rooftops: Poems by Hai Zi"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"200\"<\/a>At Modern Chinese Literature & Culture<\/a>, esteemed scholar Michelle Yeh<\/a> \u6eaa\u5bc6 has a review of Dan Murphy<\/a>‘s translations of Hai Zi <\/a>\u6d77\u5b50 (an early friend of Xi Chuan’s) in the collection Over Autumn Rooftops<\/em><\/a>. A fan of the translations overall, Yeh’s enthusiasm emerges most when she discusses the poetry, as follows:<\/p>\n

What readers will find–and enjoy–in Over Autumn Rooftops<\/em> is a poetry of considerable complexity. Hai Zi draws on a wide range of literary sources: from the Book of Odes<\/em> and Qu Yuan to Homer and Greek mythology, from canonical works to folk literature. His early poetry suggests influences by his older contemporaries, such as Shu Ting and Duo Duo. His images exhibit a tendency toward the primal (water, fire, sky, earth, fish, bird, seasons) and the sublime (“the king,” God), and he often identifies with village, sun, prairie, and wheat (“beautiful, wounded wheat” [237], “wheat in despair”). His language is simple yet tinged with mysticism, effortlessly crossing the boundary between the inner and the external world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here <\/a>or the image above for the review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At Modern Chinese Literature & Culture, esteemed scholar Michelle Yeh \u6eaa\u5bc6 has a review of Dan Murphy‘s translations of Hai Zi \u6d77\u5b50 (an early friend of Xi Chuan’s) in the collection Over Autumn Rooftops. A fan of the translations overall, … 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":[3,16,7],"tags":[233,515,144,541,538,539,540,127,1654],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-fe","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":456,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=456","url_meta":{"origin":944,"position":0},"title":"Hai Zi in Swedish & English","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"December 5, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Segueing off the days of links to posts on Xi Chuan in German, as well as the recent reports on Chinese week at Norway's Litteraturhuset, here are translations of Hai Zi \u6d77\u5b50 into Swedish by Anna Gustafsson Chen. 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