For Now I Am Sitting Here Growing Transparent
Language: English
Published by Zephyr Press February 2025, 2025
- Softcover
- Used
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- Title
- For Now I Am Sitting Here Growing Transparent
- Author
- Yau Ching
- Publisher
- Zephyr Press February 2025
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1938890345
- ISBN 13
- 9781938890345
- Seller catalogs
- Poetry
Simultaneously erudite and earthy, her poetry is shaped by Hong Kong’s cultural position on the margins of mainland China and at the center of the Cantonese-speaking world. But her time spent in New York, London, Michigan, Taiwan, and elsewhere also informs her work, as do a breast cancer diagnosis in 2009, and her long-time work advocating for sexual minorities.
Yau’s oeuvre explores gender, aesthetics, colonialism, relationships, and illness with a wide range of emotions and registers, and frequently employs wordplay. This bilingual collection includes astute political poems, understated love poems, urban anti-eclogues, and prose poems.
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About the Author
Her poems have been featured in such publications as World Literature Today, Asymptote, Catamaran, Transpacific Literary Project, and at the Center for the Art of Translation.
Chenxin Jiang is a PEN/Heim-winning translator from Italian, German, and Chinese. She was born in Singapore and grew up in Hong Kong. Recent translations include Tears of Salt: A Doctor’s Story by Pietro Bartolo and Lidia Tilotta (W. W. Norton), shortlisted for the 2019 Italian Prose in Translation Award, Volatile Texts: Us Two by Zsuzsanna Gahse (Dalkey Archive), and the PEN/Heim-winning The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution by Ji Xianlin (NYRB). Her translation of Yau Ching’s poem “Trial Run” was a winner of the 2020 Words Without Borders–Academy of Americans Poets Poems in Translation Contest. She currently serves on the board for the American Literary Translators Association.
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Uncharted Books
Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since May 15, 2018
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Uncharted Books is an independent brick-and-mortar bookstore in Chicago. We sell a highly curated selection of used books, zines, and rare titles, with a focus on the literary, the local, the strange, and the adventurous. We are a small, scrappy, DIY business that has been serving our community since 2012. We especially pride ourselves on our eclectic selection, our unique and cozy atmosphere, and our knowledgeable and friendly staff.
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Uncharted Books Inc.
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Chicago, IL U.S.A. 60618