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What Sparks Poetry is a series of original essays that explores experiences and ideas that spark the writing of new poems. In our new series focused on Translationa group of poet-translators share a seminal experience in translation. Each Monday's delivery brings you the poem and an excerpt from the essay.
Wang Wei
Translated from the Chinese by Wong May
You said dismount
& have a drink


We stood
You unsaddled your discontent

&Itook your offer of wine


Down South you said
You saw
A bed
By the mountainside


But why ask why
Start out
Friend


White clouds come

We passonby
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Wong May on In the Same Light


"Writing poetry or reading a poem is by nature a transgressive act.
You are transgressing a stranger’s consciousness. This stranger may be yourself.
Translating an ancient text & you are transgressing above all against Time.
When the work goes well, you are translating without acknowledging Time."
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"Luther Hughes with Tony Leuzzi"

"I do intentionally invite others into my space when I write a poem. Not their physical bodies, but their words/works. When I sit down to write a poem—and I do know when I sit down to write a poem, I do so with intention—I find poems or books and put them around/in front of me and read them."

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