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Monday Jun 03, 2019
Episode 6: Graham Reynolds on Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei
Monday Jun 03, 2019
Monday Jun 03, 2019
Composer, bandleader and superstar Graham Reynolds talks about the book Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei. The book offers 19 different translations of an classic Chinese poem with comments on each version by Eliot Weinberger and an afterword by Octavio Paz. The conversation touches on poetry, translation, the limits of language and the philosophy of mind.
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