Abu Masen was born in 1997 in the Big Cold Mountains, Sichuan, China. Ethnically Yi, he is a […]
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Samer Darkpa (ས་དམར་གྲགས་པ།) is a bilingual Tibetan and Chinese poet, novelist, and essayist. After living as a monk […]
A Folio of Poetry by Samer Darkpa – translated by ...
The moon in the deep night lights every sliver of bone. I inhale blue-white air.The world’s trifles and […]
Very White Moonlight by Wang Xiaoni – translated by Arthur ...
1. Small, small Under a small patch of skylies a small piece of land. On its three sides […]
A small piece of land by Wang Xiaoni – translated ...
a master walks into a forestwith half a bucket of lime waterhe walks around a treebrushes it with […]
White stockings, waist high by Wang Xiaolong – translated by ...
Mian Yang. Night rain. The 1980s.Homesickness and heaviness encroach. The heavens could be angry, the people may grieve,the […]
Night Rain in Mian Yang City by Zhao Ye – ...
The wind whistles on a spring night.Time slows, hardening into desolation.These bouts of guilt, these many departureshave turned into […]
Wind Whistles on a Spring Night by Zhao Ye – ...
Deep in the mountains, the falling stones ringlike bronze bells, their clamor hidingthe reverberations from the heavy hammeringof […]
The Bells of Shizhongshan by Delimulati Teleti – translated by ...
In this extended valley, an ancient fissionbetween mountains, the insects continue their cyclesinside edifices of dry wood and […]
The Lost Tuyoq Valley by Delimulati Teleti – translated by ...
The house groans with heat.Each beam, hinge, and sill.Each juncture of August, a mazefor a six year old […]
Excerpts from Padre Tierra by Mariano Zaro – translated by ...
In the Butterfly BookDr. W.J. Hollandwrites more or less:“When there is no moon in the skyWhen […]
Oracle by Ulalume González de León – translated by John ...
The worryworm bores into antique furnitureold […]