Yang Lian 杨炼 reading with Richard Berengarten at the Cambridge University Poetry and Prose Society.
For more on Berengarten and Yang Lian, see my reviews of Changing and of Yi (my preliminary thoughts on Yi would later develop into my chapter on Yang Lian in The Organization of Distance).
The new issue of Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now live, and with it my translations of two new poems by Duo Duo 多多, “A Fine Breeze Comes” 好风来 and “Light Coming from Before, Sing: Leave” 从前来的光，唱：离去.
tomorrow’s already past
already offered
the past is still unknown
already spokenthe limit belongs to you
nobody can have that name明天已经过去
已经给予
过去仍是未知的
已经说出 止境属于你
无人能有那名