Zoland Poetry Feature:
Jeffrey Yang
Jeffrey Yang is our first featured poet of 2012 , click here to read an interview with him on the Zoland blog.
Yang is the author of the poetry books Vanishing-Line and An Aquarium. He is the translator of Su Shi's East Slope and Liu Xiaobo's June Fourth Elegies; and is the editor of Birds, Beasts, and Seas: Nature Poems from New Directions and, with Natasha Wimmer, Two Lines: Some Kind of Beautiful Signal. He works as an editor at New Directions Publishing and New York Review Books.
For further reading, check out "Jeffrey Yang’s Planetary Poetics" in Chronogram Magazine, watch him interviewed on the PBS News Hour, or listen to "Aquarium Poet" on Studio 360.
And, if you would like to read some translations of Jeffrey Yang's poetry, please visit the Spanish magazine Eñe.
Featured Work by Jeffrey Yang:
June Fourth Elegies
by Liu Xiaobo
translated by Jeffrey Yang
Graywolf Press, 2012
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