Little Mushroom: Intro Post

[x_los]

Danmei+ Reading Club and Dank Odes are back! We're starting "Little Mushroom" (小蘑菇) the week commencing April 10th. There's an associated Discord server (ask superborb for an invite), and we'll be running comment posts here.

We'll read three (English translation) chapters per week. This spreadsheet contains the schedule and concordances of the chapter endings across the Chinese and English versions. (Each English chapter encompasses 1-4 Chinese chapters.)

Participants are welcome to read in English, Chinese, or however suits them. Discussion in either language is also welcome.

If you'd like to see more poetry content on Dankodes, please drop me a comment.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Ah, a fellow appreciator of verse! Not OP, but I really, REALLY loved "Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei" (Weinberger and Paz) both for the beauty of the original piece as well as the insights and commentary into Chinese poetry translation, and it's a very digestible short read. If you want to sink your teeth into something a little more meaty, you can also take a look at "How to Read Chinese Poetry" (Cai), which is an anthology featuring 143 famous poems spanning a range of historical periods... and approximately 450 pages long due to all the commentary. If you check them out, I'd love to hear your opinion on whether they scratched your itch! Happy reading~

[x_los]

Yeah, I also think that kind of exegesis is a really key part of having a good experience. We went in very cold with the Book of Odes, and that was hard-going.