"Abalone," "Eel," "Greed's Prisoner"
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In this installment of Lyric Nation, Jeffrey Yang reads "Abalone," first published in the October 8, 2007 issue of The Nation, "Eel" and "Greed’s Prisoner," his translation of a poem by Liu Xiaobo. "Abalone" and "Eel" are from An Aquarium (Graywolf); "Greed’s Prisoner" will appear in June Fourth Elegies, a collection of Liu Xiaobo’s poems translated by Yang and forthcoming from Graywolf. These poems were recorded by Frank Reynolds.
Jeffrey YangJeffrey Yang is the author of the poetry books An Aquarium and the forthcoming Vanishing-Line. He is the translator of Su Shi's East Slope and a collection of classical Chinese poems called Rhythm 226. Yang is also the co-editor (with Natasha Wimmer) of Two Lines: Some Kind of Beautiful Signal, and the editor of Birds, Beasts, and Seas: Nature Poems from New Directions. He is currently working on a translation of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo's June Fourth Elegies. Photograph by Nina Subin.