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Matt Turner’s translation of Lu Xun’s 野草:Weeds with woodblock prints by Monika Lin from Seaweed Salad Editions

Lu Xun’s 1927 collection of modernist experiments in prose poetry,  Yecao《野草》has, until now, been available in English translation only as Wild Grass, a 1974 translation by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang originating with Beijing’s own Foreign Languages Press. Needless to say, that was quite a while ago and, in a number of senses, a world or two ago. Mao was […]

Zhai Yongming with Andrea Lingenfelter reading at James Cohan tomorrow!

Shanghai report No. 1 for Lungfull! Magazine

Shanghai’s spitting out poetry at a tremendous rate. In English. China recently became the world’s largest English-speaking country and is slated to be the world’s largest English-speaking country by 2025 (Google it) and the poetic forecast looks… well… kinda like deironized Flarf. Of course, stodgy traditionalists complain that Chinglish can’t match authentic American Flarf in nuance, […]