An Exhilarating Vertige

Nonfiction
By: | September 30, 2011

Salsa, a collection of 46 poems by the Taiwanese poet Hsia Yü, is an incredible volume of verse by one of the most engaging and innovation poets writing in… More

Four Poems from Salsa

Poetry
By: | September 23, 2011

God made the heaven and the earth and on the seventh day / Languid and no longer loving we drifted into the forest More

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