Jeffrey Yang is the author of An Aquarium (2008) for which he won the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Prize and Vanishing-Line (2011). He is the translator of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo’s June Fourth Elegies (2012) and other Chinese writers.
Yang is also the editor of the anthologies Birds, Beasts, and Seas: Nature Poems (2011) and Time of Grief: Mourning Poems (2013). Since 2000, he has worked as an editor at New Directions.
of Azamor
at the mouth of the Oum er Rbia River
Province, Doukkala
Dorantes's slave, with Captain Castillo
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How easy it is to lose oneself
in a kelp forest. Between
canopy leaves, sunlight filters thru
the water surface; nutrients
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