Recent News
-- My lecture titled "Reading as Surveillance Work: Yu Jian's 'File Zero'" is
now available on video from the University of Chicago's CEAS series.
Thanks to Prof. Iovene and the faculty and staff at U Chicago.
-- I have a short piece on pandemic parenting, writing, and the music of
Anna Tivel up at Epiphany magazine's "Music for Desks" column.
-- Floral Mutter, my translations of the Sichuan poet Ya Shi, was named
a finalist for the Big Other Book Award for Translation! Order it from
Zephyr Press or (in Asia) The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press.
You can read the translator's introduction at the CUHK website.
-- Joanna Krenz did a fantastic, in-depth review of Floral Mutter at Cha
Magazine. The Paris Review chose the book as a Staff Pick, and Ya Shi's
poem "Quiet Lake in the Hills" was Poem of the Day at Poetry Daily on
July 30. For more, see the Translation page.
-- My lecture titled "Reading as Surveillance Work: Yu Jian's 'File Zero'" is
now available on video from the University of Chicago's CEAS series.
Thanks to Prof. Iovene and the faculty and staff at U Chicago.
-- I have a short piece on pandemic parenting, writing, and the music of
Anna Tivel up at Epiphany magazine's "Music for Desks" column.
-- Floral Mutter, my translations of the Sichuan poet Ya Shi, was named
a finalist for the Big Other Book Award for Translation! Order it from
Zephyr Press or (in Asia) The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press.
You can read the translator's introduction at the CUHK website.
-- Joanna Krenz did a fantastic, in-depth review of Floral Mutter at Cha
Magazine. The Paris Review chose the book as a Staff Pick, and Ya Shi's
poem "Quiet Lake in the Hills" was Poem of the Day at Poetry Daily on
July 30. For more, see the Translation page.