{"id":344,"date":"2014-01-04T10:53:30","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T10:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=344"},"modified":"2014-01-17T14:42:17","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T14:42:17","slug":"nocturne-on-a-new-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=344","title":{"rendered":"NOCTURNE ON A NEW THEME – Xue Di"},"content":{"rendered":"

One after another, westward
\nwe drive “love”\u2014this
\nfashionable car. Its bumper
\ncuts through cheers and catcalls
\nLove cuts open our bodies. We
\nlive in a strange country
\nLove between white and Asian
\nis a complicated
\nsoup. N.B.: the white
\ndrink soup as an appetizer
\nwhile to the Asian, soup means
\nend of banquet
\n <\/p>\n

To make love or to leave
\nwhites like to shout at the
\ntop of their lungs. The yellow
\nmanage with a look. One after another
\nmoving in the flesh. Only in bed
\nare humans allowed to air their
\nhate without reserve. Biting
\ncursing, backbiting\u2014all
\nindicate succulent loving
\n <\/p>\n

Westward our love moves, on
\nfour tires with a slow leak
\nEvery night through the
\npain of growth. Like a whacked nail
\nbent, we’re making love. The love we’ve
\nmade breaks through the gulf between
\nraces\u2014a work completed
\nin the dark. The flesh
\nshines. We know
\nwho we are. Where
\nare we<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

translated by Wang Ping and Keith Waldrop<\/p>\n

\"headshot,<\/a>Xue Di was born in Beijing. He is the au\u00adthor of three volumes of collected works and one book of criticism on contemporary Chinese poetry in Chinese. In English translation, he has published four full length books, Across Borders, Another Kind of\u00a0Tenderness, An Ordinary Day and Heart into Soil, and four chapbooks, Forgive, Cat\u2019s Eye\u00a0in a Splintered Mirror, Circumstances and Flames. His work has appeared in numerous\u00a0American journals and anthologies and has been translated into several languages. Xue\u00a0Di is a two-time recipient of the Hellman\/Hammett Award, and a recipient of the Lannan\u00a0Foundation Fellowship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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