{"id":73,"date":"2008-11-11T00:01:33","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T05:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/10\/jeffrey-yang-xi-turtle\/"},"modified":"2008-11-10T23:56:17","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T04:56:17","slug":"jeffrey-yang-xi-turtle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/11\/jeffrey-yang-xi-turtle\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Yang, &#8220;Xi-Turtle&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image72\" src=\"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/jeffrey-yang-coverart.jpg\" alt=\"jeffrey-yang-coverart.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Follow the third guideway thru<br \/>\nthe Eastern Mountains, pass<br \/>\nthe Desert of Shifting Sands to<br \/>\nTiptoe Peak, bare of plants<br \/>\nand trees but full of jade and giant<br \/>\nsnakes, you&#8217;ll find Deep Lake<br \/>\nwhere the sacred Xi-Turtle dwells.<br \/>\nThe markings on its shell foretell;<br \/>\nits stomach emanates strange sounds.<br \/>\nSays Master Zhuang: <i>What people<br \/>\nknow is inferior to what they do not know.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/29017\/biblio\/1555975135\"><i>An Aquarium<\/i><\/a>. Although this is his first collection of original poems, Yang is the translator of work by the 11th-century Chinese poet Su Shi as well as a collection of other poets in the era of the Tang and Song dynasties. See, for example, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordswithoutborders.org\/article.php?lab=SongTang\">nine examples of his translation<\/a> from <i>Words Without Borders<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The last two lines of this poem quote the Taoist philosopher <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zhuangzi\">Zhuangzi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The poems in <i>An Aquarium<\/i>, arranged alphabetically by title, are largely about fish, or employ aquatic metaphor, but that&#8217;s not all Yang does&#8212; see &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/jacketmagazine.com\/31\/yang.html\">Bedsong for A<\/a>&#8221; from <i>Jacket<\/i>. Yang will be reading from <i>An Aquarium<\/i> tonight at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.threelives.com\/readings.html\">Three Lives<\/a>, the West Village indie bookshop; I&#8217;m told it&#8217;s his birthday, so be sure to wish him well if you go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow the third guideway thru the Eastern Mountains, pass the Desert of Shifting Sands to Tiptoe Peak, bare of plants and trees but full of jade and giant snakes, you&#8217;ll find Deep Lake where the sacred Xi-Turtle dwells. The markings on its shell foretell; its stomach emanates strange sounds. Says Master Zhuang: What people know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}