Vanishing-Line by Jeffrey Yang

Vanishing-Line by Jeffrey Yang

Night garden, moon
calendar, soft mint scent.
Warm wind, silent. Gold,
silver debris.
--from Yennecott

Jeffrey Yang's second collection of poems is an exploration of the various lines--horizon line, time line, blood line, poetic line--beyond which so much vanishes from sight, from memory. With historical documentation, lyrical association, and artistic virtuosity, Yang creates a collage of elegies, losses that are private and those that define our nation. Vanishing-Line is an ambitious book by one of the most fascinating new poets in America.

Jeffrey Yang was born in 1974 in Escondido, California. He is the author of the poetry books Vanishing-Line (2011) and An Aquarium (2008, winner of the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award), both published by Graywolf Press. An Aquarium was published by Berenberg Verlag in Germany in 2012, with a preface by Eliot Weinberger. Recently, one poem from Vanishing-Line has been chosen to be a part of New York City's Poetry in Motion program where it has been displayed in the city's subways, trains, and taxis. His poems have been translated into seven languages. For the past twelve years, Yang has worked as an editor at New Directions Publishing, and has edited two anthologies for the publishing house--Time of Grief: Mourning Poems and Birds, Beasts, and Seas: Nature Poems from New Directions. He is the translator of Liu Xiaobo's June Fourth Elegies, Su Shi's East Slope, and the collection of Tang and Song poems, the Qian Jia Shi, titled Rhythm 226. With the translator Natasha Wimmer, he edited the annual anthology of world literature, Two Lines: Some Kind of Beautiful Signal. Yang also works as an editor at New York Review of Books, where he helped start their new NYRB/Poets series.

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ISBN 13	9781555975944
ISBN 10	1555975941
Title	Vanishing-Line
Author	Jeffrey Yang
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Graywolf Press
Year published	2011-09-13
Number of pages	120
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