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Book SynopsisAward-winning author to watch: winner of the 2015 Lucien Stryk Prize, short-listed for 2015 Griffin International Poetry Prize and read to crowd of 1,300 at gala awards ceremony in Toronto; recipient of a PEN/Heim Translation Grant and a year-long Fulbright Fellowship in China; was Artist-in-residence at American Academy in Rome. • Blurbs by Robert Pinsky and Ha Jin
Table of ContentsContents: For Once Ancestry Les Restes Outside Muncie, Indiana Sustenance To an old farmer Harvest On Vacation in Vermont, My Father Foresees His Death Oma’s Testament Dressing On the Slope of the False Peak, My Father Looks for his Grave Ohio Obey, Obey Wanting Out On the Plane Back to Shanghai, I Contemplate My Father Since the Divorce My Mother Never Allowance How Cancer is a Reminder of Other Pain Piety Swimming Lesson Hummingbird Weekend Getaway Sanctum By the Sea in Rain Operation Enduring Freedom Boy To leave Zimbabwe Fiel Alpenglow Iceland From the Air Near Heidelberg Dance Night, Plowing Foreign Tongues Gift Piety Nine Dragon Island Affair Night Train Man in an Alley off Jiangsu Lu, Shanghai Mahjong Mangosteen Six-Foot Chopsticks Fire Confirms to What it Shapes Fault Line Return Beggars Outside the Chengdu Train Station at Noon Hope In Praise of Dumplings On the Second Day of her Trip to Beijing, My Mother Loses a Toth Discipline Then, Something
