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Awards etc aren't always impressive - I try to be unimpressed by them! - but
if anyone in Australia (that's a joke; I do know how big it is) is thinking
of not going I'd urge them to reschedule
I know that I miss a *tremendous amount in his work because I only
experience the poetry in translation and the sounds of a language of which I
know nothing. (The Chinese on the page, too, sometimes, of course; but I
learn almost nothing from that, much less from than I do from seeing /
hearing the performance of the text, where I can seek to infer form gesture
and expression and tone... but I may be getting all that wrong)
Even so, I will hear him when I can. Even not knowing much of the literary
context in which he writes or anything of the language, I get a lot out of
it. I know him slightly - to say Hi to and exchange small talk, no more -
and can say he's a really pleasant and entertaining person too. Go and see
him!
L
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yiyan Wang" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 30 September 2001 02:27
Subject: Yang Lian - A Chinese Poet
| YANG LIAN
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| The JAMES JOYCE FOUNDATION has sponsored the visit to Sydney of Chinese
poet Yang Lian to take part in the World Congress of Poets.
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| You and friends are invited to a celebration of poetry with Yang Lian
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| VENUE: Sir Hermann Black Room of the University Club in Manning Road at
the University of Sydney
| TUESDAY 16 October 2001
| 6.00-7.00 pm and with drinks and snacks at 5.30 pm
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| YANG LIAN is the 1999 winner of the Flaiano International Literature Prize
for Poetry. In winning this award, he is immediately preceded by Seamus
Heaney (1995), Yves Bonnefoy (1996), Miroslav Holub (1997), and Lawrence
Ferlinghetti (1998); and is followed by Derek Walcott in 2000.
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| Yang Lian began publishing poetry in China in 1979 and established his
credentials as a "modernist" poet in the early 1980s.
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| Yang Lian now lives in London and serves on the advisory boards of both
Poetry International Taipei and the Berlin International Literature
Festival. He excels as a performance poet and participates in several
literary poetry festivals every year. After leaving Sydney he will be taking
part in Harborfront Writers' Festival in Toronto. He has also presented
lectures on literature at universities in England, Scotland, Sweden,
Germany, Italy, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia and the USA, the most recent
being at Harvard University in February 2001.
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| Yang Lian's most recent poems, essays and theoretical writings have been
collected and reprinted in two volumes as Yang Lian zuopin (1998: Shanghai
Wenyi Chubanshe, Shanghai), a work amounting to a total of over 1000 pages.
His poems have been published in English in single volumes, collections and
literary magazines in Australia, USA, Canada, and the UK.
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