{"id":143442,"date":"2026-01-02T15:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=143442"},"modified":"2026-01-02T15:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T15:00:12","slug":"us-poet-laureate-arthur-sze-on-slowing-down-to-translate-poetry-across-cultures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=143442","title":{"rendered":"US poet laureate Arthur Sze on slowing down to translate poetry across cultures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWhen Arthur Sze translates classical Tang dynasty poetry into English, he writes Chinese characters by hand, slowing himself to the pace of brush strokes and gaps. This deliberate resistance to speed is central to the craft of the US\u2019 25th poet laureate, and to his belief that poetry must be treated with care if it is to cross borders with depth intact.<br \/>\nSze only translates poems he loves, noting that he\u2019s done just 75 translations over a five-decade-long career. \u201cI don\u2019t work on assignment. I&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/us\/article\/3338219\/us-poet-laureate-arthur-sze-slowing-down-translate-poetry-across-cultures?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWhen Arthur Sze translates classical Tang dynasty poetry into English, he writes Chinese characters by hand, slowing himself to the pace of brush strokes&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143442"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}