Xi Chuan in Seattle
Poets Xi Chuan and Zhou Zan were in Seattle on September 29. They were reading at the Seattle Asian Art Museum, first iteration of a multi-city tour including Chicago, New York, Washington. Prior...
View ArticleLuo Qing’s Rewrite
Visual artist poet and scholar Lo Ching (Luo Qing) has been now and again inclined to rework famous pieces of the Chinese tradition. In most cases, the “rework” has to do with visual interpretations of...
View ArticleWord Image by Yu Huaiyu
Going back through some word-image materials in preparation for revising a chapter on the subject, and returning to the work of Yu Huaiyu 于怀玉, one of the leaders of Shanghai’s poetry circles and, more...
View ArticleWord-image/poem-picture: A White Blossom
Suddenly finding ourselves in the middle of something very like mid-summer here in Pac Northwest, a winter poem by D.H> Lawrence, and my own translation into Chinese. Just for the heck of it. A...
View ArticleAbstract Paintings and Poems by Chin Sung
Here of late my work returns to the abstract. Below two images and two poems, all by once New York-based Chin Sung (Qin Song). The first is a strikingly experimental poem (“Black Rain”) from 1950,...
View ArticleYang Xiaobin, another poet’s photography
Poet, critic, scholar Yang Xiaobin, now on the faculty at Academia Sinica in Taiwan, has in recent years joined the group of contemporary Chinese poets working in photography (Bei Dao, Mo Mo, Li Li...
View ArticleMy Review of Dragon in Ambush on MCLC
Today courtesy of Nick Kaldis and Kirk Denton at MCLC http://u.osu.edu/mclc/2015/10/28/dragon-in-ambush-review/ Dragon in Ambush: The Art of War in the Poems of Mao Zedong By Jeremy Ingalls Reviewed...
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