Tag: Chinese poetry

The following contribution from Lucas Klein is our first post in a blog series we’re calling “The Untranslatables.” Klein was awarded the Lucien Stryk Prize in 2013 for his translation of Xi Chuan’s Notes On the Mosquito: Selected Poems, which he discusses here:    there is a crowd of commoners as purple as red cabbage—the line, from my… Continue reading The Untranslatables: Lucas Klein