by Ryukan | Oct 11, 2011 | Blog
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...
by Ryukan | Sep 26, 2011 | Blog
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...
by Ryukan | Aug 28, 2011 | Blog
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...
by Ryukan | Aug 14, 2011 | Blog
On August 5 Meredith and I left for Beijing and after a one-night stop there, we were dropped in to an international “City of Poets” to use C.A. Conrad’s phrase. This was in Xining at the Qinghai Hotel. All my expenses were covered and Meredith only...
by Ryukan | Jan 31, 2011 | Blog
600 Words for Two New Books of Balanced Verse Michael McClure: Mysteriosos and Other Poems (New Directions, 2010) Not having read any Michael McClure since my undergraduate education a couple years ago, I was struck with curiosity when I learned about this book. I’m...
