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Xi Chuan has again been translated by Lucas Klein, this time in a volume called Bloom and Other Poems. Xi Chuan’s poems, as they emerge in English, have often a streaming headstrong intensity, and a visual brilliance—he’s a kind of philosopher imagist. Xi Chuan, who wanted to be a painter and these days is working on a series of documentaries about poets, is described in the translator’s foreword as bridging—or maybe the metaphor is “mixing”—the intellectual traditions of Chinese poetry with the populist, in the style of his rhetoric and in the kinds of things he writes about, the stuff of everyday life. There is something of Inger Christensen about his anaphorics and long lines and cosmic but local concerns. Here, for instance, is the first part of “Senses of Reality,” which appeared in Xi Chuan’s previous collection of English-language translations, also rendered by Klein, called Notes on the Mosquito. The lines have a hypnotic, melancholy beauty:
For the duration of the war, the producers have replaced Shaquille O’Neal on the panel with James McPherson, the legendary historian of the First American Civil War. McPherson himself is substituted by NBA Hall of Famer Dwyane Wade on alternating Thursdays. This is not one of those Thursdays.
We join the action midsegment as Chuck and Kenny spiritedly debate the strategic and tactical wisdom of the Secessionist attack on Shaker Heights, Ohio.
KENNY “THE JET” SMITH: Chuck—
CHARLES BARKLEY: I am saying—
SMITH: Chuck—
BARKLEY: I’m saying—
SMITH: No, Chuck—
BARKLEY: Let me say—
ERNIE JOHNSON: Let him, let him say it—
Forty years ago, fourteen civil servants working in Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) lost their jobs for being members of a trade union. Margaret Thatcher enforced a ban on trade union membership in 1984, claiming that it wasn’t possible for someone to be in a union and be loyal to their country. During a House of […]
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As the judges at The Hague deliberate on South Africa’s indictment of Israel, a lawsuit against senior U.S. officials for supporting genocide is set to begin in federal court.
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The House Democratic leadership, normally staunch allies of AIPAC, bucked the Israel lobby in favor of incumbent progressive Summer Lee.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders forced a vote on the resolution, which would have opened the door for Congress to freeze U.S. aid to Israel.
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