Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
For this volume, noted translator Keming Liu selected one hundred poems, chiefly representing poet Zhang Lian’s multifaceted perceptions of his world at dusk, when farmer and shepherd are blessed with a moment to daydream.
Part historical imagining of Japan’s so-called “comfort women” during World War II, part personal claiming of her own experiences with immigration and motherhood, and part exploration of identity across two languages, The War Still Within weaves together two cultures and gives voice to generations of Korean and Korean-American women.
武侠 电影 Wuxia Flick Produced by Corona Studios, Unlimited, 2020. Trailer: A decade before, the world in 2009 Was divided into diseases of pigs and birds— Split into desires with stunted names Like SARS, AIDS, FLU that flew From tongue to lavender tongue, that entered through moist boba pearls Of saliva, blood & unprotected sex, … Read more
All poems are translated from Chinese to English by the author.
Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) was an acclaimed international sculptor, designer, and landscape architect. A Japanese American, Noguchi was born in Los Angeles but raised in Japan and studied pre-medicine at Columbia University, New York. In 1942, he founded Nisei Writers and Artists Mobilization for Democracy, and voluntarily entered a U.S. internment camp in Arizona during World … Read more
COVID Cold as it is, but devastating as if an Ominous roar from nature. Virus gone “wild” because I, a sinner ever hurts nature, Deserves such karma. Fun (Janeiro) Joy imbues every corner While walls are dressed in red for the Rat Laughter here and there And nothing seems fearful … Read more