For today’s post I want to congratulate Dong Li on his first poetry book The Orange Tree, winner of the Phoenix Emerging Poet Book Prize, to be published by the University of Chicago Press on March 31. Through the title poem, we get a speaker who recounts a family story braided with the history of the People’s Republic of China. His writing is enthralling, ambitious, mythological. And the book’s design embraces Chinese waymarks and the vertical typography. Congratulations to Dong Li. Here is a sample poem:
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Author: Denise Duhamel
