July 26, 2019
175: Immigrant Can't Write Poetry
July 26, 2019
175: Immigrant Can't Write Poetry
Immigrant Can't Write Poetry
by Wang Ping
Read the automated transcript.
“Oh no, not with your syntax,” said H.V. to her daughter-in-law,
a Chinese writing poetry in English
She walk to table
She walks to a table
She walk to table now
She is walking to a table now
What difference it make
What difference does it make
In Nature, no completeness
No sentence really complete thought
Language, our birthright & curse
Pay no mind to immigrant syntax
Poetry, born as beast
Move best when free, undressed
Used by permission of the poet.