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<strong>北京大学</strong>英语新闻网/<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong> <strong>News</strong><br />

―Pamirs Night‖ ——A Poetry Reading<br />

at <strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong><br />

<strong>PKU</strong> NEWS 2006—9-22<br />

http://ennews.pku.edu.cn/news.php?s=158922914<br />

<strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong>, Beijing, Sep. 22th (2006): ‗The 2006 Pamirs Night‘, a poetry<br />

reading, was held on the evening <strong>of</strong> Sep. 20th 2006 at the Overseas Exchange<br />

Center <strong>of</strong> <strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong>. Many poets attended the conference and read their<br />

favorite poems in many different languages lyrically.<br />

The poetry reading ‗Pamirs Night‘ has been planned as one <strong>of</strong> the courses for<br />

Department <strong>of</strong> Chinese Language and Literature <strong>of</strong> <strong>Peking</strong> <strong>University</strong>, which will<br />

make a great contribution to the development <strong>of</strong> Chinese New-style Poem.<br />

The famous poet <strong>of</strong> China Xi Chuan presided over the conference. As he pointed<br />

out, ‗Pamirs‘ stands for an extra culture and extra language intercommunication full<br />

<strong>of</strong> imagination, which is just the soul <strong>of</strong> a poem, accordingly, this poetry reading was<br />

held on the topic <strong>of</strong> it.<br />

American poet Eliot Weinberg, British poet William Neil Herbert, French poet Chantal<br />

Chen-Andro, German poet Wolfgang Kubin and many other foreign poets attended<br />

the conference. Besides, many famous Chinese poets were also present, such as<br />

Mang Ke, Wang Yin and Yang Lian.<br />

Poems read on this reading are all new-style ones. Chinese, <strong>English</strong>, French,<br />

Deutsch, Russian, Japanese and Farsi can all be heard. The poems broke through<br />

language barrier and grasped the soul <strong>of</strong> all the attendees.<br />

Edited By : Wang Yi<br />

Translated By : Ning Jing<br />

Source : <strong>PKU</strong> <strong>News</strong> (Chinese)<br />

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