Mozart in E-flat Major

Mozart in E-flat Major

By Hsia Yü Hsia Yu

Translated from the Chinese by Karen An-hwei Lee Read the translator's notes

I turn around.
          I feel Monday’s well-shaven face lightly
          caress my left shoulder

          most cherished part
          most crucial here and now

Source: Poetry (June 2011).

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This poem originally appeared in the June 2011 issue of Poetry magazine

June 2011

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Biography

Hsia Yü (also Xia Yu) is the author of several volumes of poetry, most recently Pink Noise (2007). A founding editor of the Taiwanese avant-garde literary zine, Xianzai Shi (Poetry now), she currently resides in Taipei where she works as a lyricist and translator.

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