Wesley on Yingelishi

Yingelishi, Jonathan Stallings' Sinophonic opera is the elegant, fluid clashing of two very diverse languages.  from its varied formats: visual and audio, read and spoken, spoken and heard, the work speaks to the notion of translation as sound and sound as meaning.  I was intrigued by the format of the poems/translations/transformations in the book.  For me, the lines evoked shadows, one line to the next, that cast diluted meanings and understandings to the user but eventually becomes the profound product of the process.