Zhang Er
translated from the Chinese by Martine Bellen
translated from the Chinese by Martine Bellen
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Zhang Er was born in Beijing and moved to the US in 1986. She is the author of four collections of poetry in Chinese, most recently Yellow Walls: A String of Doors (Huangchenggen, yiliumen, First Line Press). Her selected poems in two bilingual collections, So Translating Rivers and Cities and Verses on Bird are from Zephyr Press. She co-edited the bilingual volume Another Kind of Nation: an Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Poetry (Talisman House, Publishers). She has read and lectured at international festivals, conferences, reading series and universities in China, France, Portugal, Russia, Peru, Argentina, Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and in the US. She teaches at The Evergreen State College in the state of Washington.
Martine Bellen is the author of numerous collections of poetry, most recently Wabac Machine (Furniture Press Books).
Zhang Er was born in Beijing and moved to the US in 1986. She is the author of four collections of poetry in Chinese, most recently Yellow Walls: A String of Doors (Huangchenggen, yiliumen, First Line Press). Her selected poems in two bilingual collections, So Translating Rivers and Cities and Verses on Bird are from Zephyr Press. She co-edited the bilingual volume Another Kind of Nation: an Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Poetry (Talisman House, Publishers). She has read and lectured at international festivals, conferences, reading series and universities in China, France, Portugal, Russia, Peru, Argentina, Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and in the US. She teaches at The Evergreen State College in the state of Washington.
Martine Bellen is the author of numerous collections of poetry, most recently Wabac Machine (Furniture Press Books).