From the International Literary Festival in Beijing, travel and voice - Eleanor Wachtel leads a discussion about the writer's role across languages and cultures or social class, through the imagination. With Lijia Zhang from China, and Luka Lesson from Australia. Also on the show, an encore presentation of Eleanor Wachtel's 2008 conversation with poet, Xi Chuan. His first collection of poetry to be published in English, Notes on the Mosquito, is coming out this month from New Directions.
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