chinese poetry
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The Poetry Center presents Clarence Major and Patricia Spears Jones, celebrating the release of two retrospective volumes: Major’s From Now On: New and Selected Poems, 1970–2015 (University of Georgia Press, 2015) and Spears Jones’s A Lucent Fire: New and Selected Poems (White Pine Press, 2015). Their readings are followed by both poets responding to questions from the audience.
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The Poetry Center, together with City Lights Books and The Green Arcade, present a 50th Anniversary reading of Frank O'Hara's Lunch Poems (City Lights Books Pocket Poets Series, 1964; 50th Anniversary Edition, 2014) at McRoskey Mattress Co., San Francisco. O'Hara's 43 poems from his book are performed in sequence by an array of Bay Area poets and friends.
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The Poetry Center presents Gary Snyder reading from his translations of Japanese and Chinese Poetry, as well as descriptions of the culture surrounding and the personalities of the poets: Sakaki Nanao, Nagasawa Tetsuo, Mao Ze Dong, Wang Yang Ming, and Yamada Kaiya.
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Gary Snyder, after reading from his Cold Mountain (Han Shan) Poems and his poem "Axe Handles," with Wang Ping reading her Chinese translations, talks about the genesis and nature of these works. Wang Ping writes: "In this video, Gary read some of his Hanshan poems, and I read the translation [to Chinese], then we went on to his legendary 'Axe Handles' poem, and the translation. We discussed how the poem was made, bringing many centuries of cultural entanglement, including Book of Songs from Confucius era, Ezra Pound and Arthur Waley's translations, Lu Ji's Wen Fu, and how it all came together at Kitkitdizze, Gary's homestead, at the foothills of the Sierras, where generations of beat poetry, environmental and deep ecology movements were birthed and flourished. This video was filmed by Steve Dickison, director of The Poetry Center, SFSU, which sponsored my poetry reading event at the Medicine for Nightmares bookstore on 11-11-21, which allowed me to make the trip to Kitkitdizze." Video courtesy of Wang Ping and Gary Snyder.
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The Poetry Center presents the second event of the Kuwentuhan (Talkstory) project, a reading featuring Javier O. Huerta, Lehua M. Taitano, and Angela Narciso Torres held at Alley Cat Books in San Francisco. Javier Huerta reads new, unpublished poems, and translations from his book Some Clarifications y otros poemas (Arte Publico, 2007). Lehua M. Taitano reads her longer poem "Sonoma," and her short story "Makana." Angela Narciso Torres reads from her book Blood Orange (Aquarius Press, 2013) and newer work. Kuwentuhan (Talkstory), a project of The Poetry Center and Barbara Jane Reyes, is supported by the Creative Work Fund.