While in China for the 3rd Qinghai Lake International Poetry Festival this past August, I met one of the most renowned younger Chinese poets, Xi Chuan. He has a book coming out next year entitled Notes on the Mosquito, published in translation by New Directions. In Seattle recently to celebrate the release of an anthology [...]
A bilingual reading of contemporary Chinese poetry happens this Thursday, September 29, 2011 at the Seattle Asian Art Museum, in the Stimson Auditorium at 7:00p. Admission is free and poets Xi Chuan and Zhou Zan visit from China to take part in this exchange.
I had the good fortune to meet Xi Chuan in Xining, [...]
Every step once taken in the first advance of the human race, from the amoeba to the highest type of intelligence, has been duplicated, every step exactly paralleling the one that preceded in the dead ages gone by. A perfect plagiarism results.Everything is and is new. Only the imagination is undeceived.
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Paul Nelson reports from the 3rd Qinghai Lake International Poetry Festival. Meredith Nelson’s photos are featured.
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