Harry Gilonis is a poet, editor, publisher, and occasional
critic. Much of his work is inter-textual, involving widely-varying modes of
translation and mis-translation. He has
active for a while now with North Hills, a project of 'faithless' recastings of
classical Chinese poetry - which turns out to be the most avant-garde writing
up until L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E. (Selections
from North Hills have appeared in e.g. Wheel River from Contraband and
eye-blink from Veer Books.) The postcard re-presented here was made as a unique
contribution to Chris Goode and Jonny Liron’s World of Work, a
performance-piece improvised in real time from a pack of 60-odd cards, first
presented at the 2010 second Sussex Poetry Festival in Brighton.
Li Shang-yin is perhaps the most rebarbatively
baroque poet in the Chinese classical tradition, and the zither-poem is
arguably his most difficult single text, still defying convincing exegesis a
thousand-plus years on. Thanks to Andy
Spragg for the initial invitation and for his subsequent patience; much
appreciated.
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