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Translator s Note: China has always been an agricultural society. In spite of recent industrial development, the majority of Chinese are officially identified as farmers, holding what is called the nong ye hu kou (farmer s resident status). Rural China has received much less attention than cities in China s modernization process. Farmers are facing a changing world where their traditional lifestyle is challenged as they often have to leave for the cities to make a living. Even the rural landscape is changed as cities expand.
The contemporary poets here all come from countryside China, but have a range of professions. Some are still farmers. Some have become laborers or office workers in cities. Some have become successful managers in businesses. These poets share an attachment to nature, the land, and the people in their hometowns. They share nostalgia for the countryside they used to know before the turbulent changes of reform. They have deep sympathy for t
“Paradise Travel” by Jorge Franco
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2006
Paradise Travel, the entrancing new novel by Jorge Franco, offers a heartbreaking and illuminating glimpse of the multi-faceted and confusing world of illegal immigrants in the U.S. For Franco, the Medellín-born prize-winning author of
Maldito Amor,
Mala Noche, and
Rosario Tijeras, the underside of society is familiar ground. An integral member of the gritty realist literary movement known as McOndo, he is one of a number of Colombian authors in their late 30 s and early 40 s whose work focuses on the country s problems with drugs, corruption and violence.
In
Paradise Travel, Franco turns his lens from his own country outward to examine the life of an illegal Colombian immigrant in New York City. The narrative unfolds in two alternating time frames, shifting back and forth between lower-middle class Colombia and immigrant New York, a storytelling technique which is handled quite aptly by Franco.
In Reply to Vice-Magistrate Chang
In these twilight years, I love tranquility
alone. Mind free of our ten thousand affairs,
self-regard free of all those grand schemes,
I return to my old forest, knowing empty.
Soon mountain moonlight plays my ch in.
inner pattern behind failure and success?
Fishing song carries into shoreline depths. The ch in is the ancient stringed instrument that Chinese poets used to accompany the chanting of their poems (poems were always sung). The ch in appears often in classical poetry. It is ancestor to the more familiar Japanese koto.
From Mountain Home: The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient China,
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