The reciprocal translation project by Anthology and translated by James Sherry, Sun Dong, Various

This is poetry from China.

The reciprocal translation project by Anthology translated by James Sherry, Sun Dong, Various is published by Roof Books. This is a Book originally written in Chinese. This was published in 2017.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781931824729E12.

The reciprocal translation project is an anthology translated by James Sherry, Sun Dong, Various from Chinese, gathering Chinese-language poetry from China through Chinese-English reciprocity, anthology as exchange, and translation treated as a two-way experiment rather than delivery. Its value comes from chorus rather than singular authorship, so I would not treat it as one poet’s private weather. The better entrance is through reciprocity, exchange, experiment, and the shared risk of poets meeting across languages. Anthologies can become maps, but the best ones also leave room for wandering, disagreement, and surprise. The reciprocal translation project belongs in the translated poetry library because it belongs as an anthology that foregrounds translation as collaboration and method. It gives a reader several doors into a tradition before asking them to choose only one.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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