Interview// Invisibility is a Form of Presence: A Conversation with Fiona Sze-Lorrain:
On translating Green Mountain by Chinese Poet Yang Jian
Conversations between writers about their art and craft.
On translating Green Mountain by Chinese Poet Yang Jian
Conducted by Jessica Freeman
“I’m interested in literature that depicts a person or community’s lived experiences as a wholly social conundrum.”
conducted by Alex Gallo-Brown
“There’s a certain way that the poems seek a new narration, I think, one that hadn’t been there. And yet, maybe still isn’t there, but it is its own thing.”
“I began to feel an urgency, not only in the theoretical power of poetry but in our collective power as poets.”
“What does it mean to let the eye linger? Where will it go? What will I see?”
“Poetry is a way . . . to turn the language on itself again and again.”
Conducted by Gabriela Denise Frank
Conducted by Shriram Sivaramakrishnan