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On translating oral history into poetry.

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By Mo Fei
Translated By Wang Ping
As if sweet olives blossomed again after the first Bailu frost, shadows
Talk, tiger tail grass talks,…

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By Naomi Ortiz
Weight of both reusable glass plus liquid means
my wrist twists down
the only direction it bends...
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Wang Ping

B. 1957
Poet, novelist, and artist Wang Ping was born in 1957 in Shanghai, China. She grew up on a small island…. Read More
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