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“V’Dovid Yafeh Einayim. . .”
<<< David had beautiful eyes, a shepherd among the lilies. David had beautiful eyes, a shepherd among the lilies. Saul smote his thousands, and David his tens of thousands. David, King of Israel, lives,Lives to this day.…
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A Product’s Story, A Worker’s Story [by Eleanor Goodman]
The poet Zheng Xiaoqiong does not herself appear in the documentary film Iron Moon, a movie about worker-poets surviving in contemporary China, but her poetry does. Zheng has worked a die-mold factory, a magnetic tape…
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The Death of a Poet [by Eleanor Goodman]
The poet Xu Lizhi come to prominence in one of the worst possible ways: he jumped from a high-rise in Shenzhen, ending his life at the age of 24. Before his death, Xu was…
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“Suchness”: Eric Brown’s Vernissage (October 28)
PRESS RELEASE SUCHNESS – New Work by Eric BrownCRUSH Curatorial Chelsea526 West 26th Street, Suite 709, NY, NY 10001Dates: Friday October 28- November 19, 2016Hours: Thursday, Friday and Saturday 1-5PMOpening Reception: Friday October 28,…
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Iron Moon and the Lives of Chinese Worker-Poets [by Eleanor Goodman]
I have long admired these lines in Jane Hirshfield’s poem “Unnameable Heart”: “There are so many / lives of which I know nothing. / Even my own.” As a translator of Chinese literature, I…
