It reminds me Of a morning in an old alley in Shanghai A heavy white fog outside the window Or before the great revolution In the Yangtze delta, the entwined Obscure souls 蚕丝 它令我想到 某个早晨旧上海弄堂 窗口外的阵阵白雾 或者是，大革命前 江浙一带，被缠绕着的 晦暗不明的灵魂
Blackbird
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Dong Li
Dong LI is a multilingual author who translates from Chinese, English, French, and German. He is the English translator of the PEN/Heim winning The Gleaner Song (Giramondo & Deep Vellum, 2021) by the Chinese poet Song Lin, and The Wild Great Wall (Deep Vellum, 2018) by the Chinese poet Zhu Zhu. His debut collection of poetry, The Orange Tree (The University of Chicago Press, 2023) was the inaugural winner of the Phoenix Emerging Poet Book Prize.
YE Hui
YE Hui is an acclaimed Chinese poet and probably the only metaphysical poet in contemporary China. His latest collection The Ruins was published in China in 2021. His poems in English translation have appeared or are forthcoming in 128 Lit, The Arkansas International, Asymptote, Lana Turner and others. The English full-length translation of The Ruins is forthcoming from Deep Vellum and has been awarded a PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant.
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