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Yours Truly & Other Poems

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from “somebody”

Spring stays inside the hat
Autumn stays inside the blouse
Morning stays on the treetops
Evening stays in the shithole

The barren mountain stays on the barren mountain
Jadeite water stays in the teapot
The mansion stays on the map
The poor stay in the gutter

Three pounds of ink stay in the intestines
50 grams of sweat stay in the bloodstream
Spit stays outside the store
Foul langauge stays on ivory

Xi Chuan, the pen name of Liu Jun, a poet, essayist, and translator, was born in 1963 in Jiangsu province, and graduated from the English Department of Peking University in 1985. He has published four collections of poems, including A Fictitious Family Tree and Roughly Speaking , two books of essays, and one book of criticism, in addition to a play and translations ranging from Ezra Pound to Jorge Luis Borges to Czeslaw Milosz.

Lucas Klein—a former radio DJ and union organizer—is a writer, translator and editor if CipherJournal.com. He is Assistant Professor in the Department of Chinese, Translation & Linguistics at City University of Hong Kong. Endure, a small collection of Bei Dao poems translated with Clayton Eschleman, is now out from Black Widow Press.

Publisher: Tinfish Press

Release: May 10, 2022

Yours Truly & Other Poems

4.2/5 ( ratings)

from “somebody”

Spring stays inside the hat
Autumn stays inside the blouse
Morning stays on the treetops
Evening stays in the shithole

The barren mountain stays on the barren mountain
Jadeite water stays in the teapot
The mansion stays on the map
The poor stay in the gutter

Three pounds of ink stay in the intestines
50 grams of sweat stay in the bloodstream
Spit stays outside the store
Foul langauge stays on ivory

Xi Chuan, the pen name of Liu Jun, a poet, essayist, and translator, was born in 1963 in Jiangsu province, and graduated from the English Department of Peking University in 1985. He has published four collections of poems, including A Fictitious Family Tree and Roughly Speaking , two books of essays, and one book of criticism, in addition to a play and translations ranging from Ezra Pound to Jorge Luis Borges to Czeslaw Milosz.

Lucas Klein—a former radio DJ and union organizer—is a writer, translator and editor if CipherJournal.com. He is Assistant Professor in the Department of Chinese, Translation & Linguistics at City University of Hong Kong. Endure, a small collection of Bei Dao poems translated with Clayton Eschleman, is now out from Black Widow Press.

Publisher: Tinfish Press

Release: May 10, 2022

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