Since the first time I read Heinrich von Kleist, I’ve been impressed by the way he handled his death or, to be precise, by how he committed suicide. It was on November 21, 1811. He was [...]
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photo collage by Brian Weller Telly is, in a way, the first love poem I ever wrote. Ever since I was a child, my writing was a place I talked to myself about things I couldn’t [...]
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Translated by Lisa Dillman It was just as he’d always imagined a palace to be. Supported by columns, with paintings and statues in every room, animal skins draped over sofas, gold door knockers, a ceiling too [...]
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The following is an excerpt from the upcoming book, A Lifetime Is a Promise to Keep: Poems of Huang Xiang, China Research Monograph 63. Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 2009. To learn [...]
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In October 1978 Huang Xiang, Li Jiahua, Fang Jiahua, and Mo Jiangang traveled from Guiyang to the capital for the first time. Arriving on the tenth, they posted the inaugural issue of the underground journal Enlightenment [...]
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translated by Michelle Yeh The First Intimation A tree appears in February. God knows how many trees there are in the world that look just like it, but for me there is only one. It flashes [...]
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Literary translation is neither here nor there: between languages, between cultures, neither in full view nor fully invisible. Translators are often described as caught between the extremes of a series of paradoxes that become irreconcilable dilemmas [...]
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In this essay, Sampsonia Way emeritus writer-in-residence, Horacio Castellanos Moya, discusses the conflict between writers and dictators. The essay explores the example of Ernesto Cardenal, an 84-year-old former Nicaraguan culture minister and Catholic priest, who helped [...]
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translated by Katherine Silver Click here for the Spanish version The relationship between writers and political power has never been simple, especially when the writer in question has participated, even temporarily, in the exercise of such [...]
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