{"id":949,"date":"2012-05-30T11:06:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T03:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=949"},"modified":"2012-05-30T11:06:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T03:06:57","slug":"back-cover-blurbs-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=949","title":{"rendered":"Back Cover Blurbs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Xi Chuan\u2019s Notes on the Mosquito<\/em><\/a> intercepts the traditional loveliness of the pastoral lyric with the close inspection of city eyes. This remarkable book traces the evolution of a poet who is simultaneously contemplative and social, a world-wanderer firmly rooted in his native Beijing. After the quashing of the student movement in 1989 and several years of self-imposed silence, Xi Chuan resumed writing at a point between two ends\u2014between poetry and history, between poetry and philosophy, poetry and religion.\u00a0He writes with a calm, ever-curious, and questioning intellect\u2014a poet supremely interested in \u201cnow\u201d and firmly resistant to either nostalgia for, or amnesia of, \u201cthen.\u201d This welcome, bilingual selection by one of China\u2019s preeminent contemporary poets opens more long-sealed doors to the complexity of his homeland.<\/p>\n

\u2014C. D. Wright<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Xi Chuan\u2019s Notes on the Mosquito intercepts the traditional loveliness of the pastoral lyric with the close inspection of city eyes. This remarkable book traces the evolution of a poet who is simultaneously contemplative and social, a world-wanderer firmly rooted … 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":[3,12,7],"tags":[70,1654],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-fj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":602,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=602","url_meta":{"origin":949,"position":0},"title":"Xi Chuan at the MLA–Today!","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"January 6, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"from the MLA's listing: 347. 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