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philoSOPHIA Forum on Translation: Cycles of Engendered/Endangered Contemporaneity in Han Bo’s China Eastern Railway Poems

I’m grateful and pleased not only to have my own work in the latest issue of philoSOPHIA, but also to share space with the writer and artist Han Bo alongside scholars and translators Sun Dong, Yuan Gao, Yuming Piao, and Yizhong Ning in a special forum focused on Han Bo’s China Eastern Railway 《中东铁路》 cycle of […]

2019 Shanghai International Literary Festival appearance with Han Bo, Monika Lin and Jacob Dreyer

  We’ll be launching our debut bilingual poetry chapbook, Han Bo’s China Eastern Railway at noon on Tuesday, March 19 at the 2019 Shanghai International Literary Festival. The event will be in Chinese and English, featuring Han Bo reading his poetry alongside my translations. Book designer (and partner extraordinaire) Monika Lin and writer, art critic, and editor Jacob Dreyer will […]

Old poems, new place, good times

Three Shanghai poems from Expat Taxes, originally published in various editions of Larry Fagin’s Sal Mimeo, are up at Alluvium, the house publication of Literary Shanghai. Plus one they like because it has the word “alluvial” in it, previously published in the Brooklyn Rail, as a li’l promo salvo in advance of the reading event at […]

Soft focus, soft censorship, self-censorship: “Poetry,” “China,” and Biz Journo Expats

As much of a pleasure as it was to appear at the Shanghai International Literary Festival with Jen Bervin, Jen Hyde and Wen Jin, it was one mixed — as is always the case for me here in Shanghai — with significant measures of the odd and the off. Don’t get me wrong: One of the things I like about life in […]

Ragged Claws at HKU Museum and Galleries

    AN EVENING WITH DAVID PERRY Prufrock the Destroyer, an Anthropocene Mutant arisen from the floors of silent seas.… From the HKUMAG site (with thanks going out to the excellent James Shea, Collier Nogues, and Chris Mattison): About his talk, David says, “I’ve lived in Shanghai for over a decade now, and I’m fascinated not only […]

Shanghai International Literary Festival appearances

    I’ll be reading and speaking at two SILF events. First, Saturday 11 March at 2pm, with Austin Woerner and Nina Powles, I’ll be reading a few poems and previewing the Thursday 16 6pm reading and panel discussion with Jen Bervin, Wen Jin and Jen Hyde. Thursday’s event has been long in the making, bringing […]

Target One

no thing clever to say isn’t nothing enough to have said and been done with

Toward a Poetics of the Anthropocene

Abstract from NYU Shanghai Faculty Lecture, based on talk given at Fudan University, on poetry, poetics and the Anthropocene. I remain unconvinced in my own work, by my own work, and of it, and that’s perhaps the point, the point that can only be to keep working: In The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, […]