{"id":540,"date":"2014-01-04T20:27:26","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T20:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=540"},"modified":"2014-01-16T21:10:52","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T21:10:52","slug":"witch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/?p=540","title":{"rendered":"WITCH &#8211; Xue Di"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-540-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Witch.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Witch.mp3\">https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Witch.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1444\" style=\"width: 313px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1444\" class=\" wp-image-1444   \" alt=\"art, Witch cosplay by Emmacosplay-1\" src=\"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/art-Witch-cosplay-by-Emmacosplay-1.jpg\" width=\"303\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/art-Witch-cosplay-by-Emmacosplay-1.jpg 510w, https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/art-Witch-cosplay-by-Emmacosplay-1-265x300.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 303px) 100vw, 303px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1444\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo credit &#8211; Emmacosplay<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Xue Di reads his poem &#8220;Witch&#8221; in Chinese, followed by \u00a0Forrest Gander who reads it in English.<\/p>\n<p>(From the Brown University Audio Collection, used with permission by Di.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/headshot-Xue-Di-book-gi_204.jpg\" rel='prettyPhoto'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-926 alignleft\" alt=\"headshot, Xue Di, book, gi_204\" src=\"https:\/\/narrativenortheast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/headshot-Xue-Di-book-gi_204.jpg\" width=\"140\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a>Poet\u00a0Xue Di\u00a0is a native of Beijing who left China after taking part in the 1989 demonstrations in Tiananmen Square; he has been a fellow in Brown\u2019s Freedom to Write program since 1990.\u00a0 Since coming to Providence, Xue Di has published four books in English translation,\u00a0<em>Flames\u00a0<\/em>(paradigm press, 1995), a cycle of poems dedicated to Vincent Van Gogh,\u00a0<em>Heart into Soil\u00a0<\/em>(Burning Deck\/Lost Roads Press, 1998), and\u00a0<em>Circumstances\u00a0<\/em>(Duration Press, 2000).\u00a0 Three volumes of Xue Di\u2019s collected works, prepared for publication in mainland China in 1999, were stopped in press due to governmental censorship.\u00a0 In the same year, Xue Di received a grant from the Joukowsky Foundation that has allowed him to remain at Brown and continue his writing. \u00a0His newest \u00a0book is &#8220;Across Borders.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Xue Di reads his poem &#8220;Witch&#8221; in Chinese, followed by \u00a0Forrest Gander who reads it in English. 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