[Wgcp-whc] Upcoming Poetry Reading: Yang Lian on April 17

[Richard Deming]

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> From: "Lucas Klein" <Lucas.Klein at yale.edu>
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> Friday, April 17, 2009       4:00 PM
> SPECIAL POETRY READING
> Yang Lian
> Room 208, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street
> Co-Sponsored with Whitney Humanities Center
>
> Reading in Chinese, including a reading of the English translation  
> by Lucas Klein
>
> Yang Lian has been writing since the 1970s and first came to the  
> attention of the Chinese reading public in the 1980s, when one of  
> his poems became the target of political criticism for its  
> "spiritually corrupting" potential. Abroad at the time of the  
> Tiananmen repression in 1989, he has since made his career in  
> exile, chiefly in New Zealand and England. His books published in  
> English include _Non-Person Singular_ (1995), _Concentric Circles_  
> (2005), and _Unreal City_ (2006). A selection of poems from his  
> career was published in 2008 as _Riding Pisces._ His work has been  
> translated into German, Danish, Italian, and French, among other  
> languages. Yang Lian will be reading from his recent work and  
> commenting on the practice of literary cosmopolitanism.
>
> For more information:
> http://yanglian.net/yanglian_en/index.html
>
> Preceded by:
>
> "The Second Life of Literature: Collaboration and Cultural  
> Intervention in Translation"
> Friday, April 17, 2009
> 2:00 PM
>
> Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, Room 208
> http://www.yale.edu/whc/calendar.html
>
> A panel discussion in conjunction with the publication of Can Xue's  
> novel Five Spice Street, a Margellos World Republic of Letters book.
>
> Jonathan Brent - Yale University Press
> Karen Gernant - Southern Oregon University
> Alyson Waters - Yale University
> Chen Zeping - Fujian Teachers' University
> Virginia Jewiss - Whitney Humanities Center, Yale, moderator
>

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