Sight, or Island No. 5

Poetry Issue 17, Volume 1: Winter-Spring 2004

Someone who dies in a vision

Poetry Issue 17, Volume 1: Winter-Spring 2004

Yang Lian

Yang Lian is a Professor of Poetry at the European Graduate School EGS and an influential contemporary poet. He was one of the Misty Poets, an underground group of Chinese poets surrounding the literary magazine Jintian (Today). He won the 2021 Sarah McGuire Prize for Poetry in Translation.