Articles tagged "Chinese Poetry"

Remembering the Departed Spirits: Liu Xiaobo’s “June Fourth Elegies” (Dispatches)

By Alisha Kaplan | September 12, 2012

“Let the darkness transform into rock across the wilderness of my memory.” — From “Fifteen Years of Darkness,” June Fourth Elegies Every year since the Tiananmen Square Massacre…...

The Week in Translation (Dispatches)

By Rachel Morgenstern-Clarren | July 30, 2012

GO what: June Fourth Elegies: A Reading and Discussion with Jeffrey Yang and Larry Siems when: Thursday, August 2, 6:30-8pm where: Museum of Chinese in America RSVP to programs@mocanyc.org website: http://www.mocanyc.org/visit/events/june_fourth_elegies_a_reading_and_discussion_with_jeffrey_yang_and_larry_siems…...

Words without Borders announces Bei Dao’s upcoming visit to the Northside College Prep High School (WWB: Press Releases)

By Joshua Mandelbaum | February 22, 2012

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact Information Contact: Joshua Mandelbaum, Executive Director Organization Name: Words without Borders Telephone Number: E-mail Address: joshua@wordswithoutborders.org…...

Narratives of 1960 (Mag: Articles)

By Yang Jian | June 1, 2011

Grandmother’s last clothing is a reed mat her coffin a small fishing boat The year was 1960 She stole a kilo of yellow beans Those who ordered her to kneel on snail shells are mostly dead Those still…...

Translated from Chinese by Fiona Sze-Lorrain bilingual version

Poems for Parting (Mag: Articles)

By Du Mu | January 1, 2005

1 So slender and so graceful not much more than thirteen the tip of a cardamom branch in spring just about to bud ten miles down the Yangzhou road and the spring winds were blowing lots of women since,…...

Translated from Chinese by David Young and Jiann I. Lin

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