Monthly Archives: March, 2023

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The art of translation is like having two separate brains. When I’m translating or reading, there is always another brain running in the background. A temporary state of split personality disorder is extremely helpful in poetry.

A long-held family tradition, I feed my mother’s dead tongue to my daughter in bits and pieces.

the best memory of my life / also consists of the worst one / visiting my grandparents in / Malaysia

After having written my first book, I feel as though I'm in this incredible transition or transformative phase. In preparation for this novel, I am reinventing myself in a sense, and shedding all the layers of the person that I was when I was working on my first book.

To enter the world of David Ly’s debut collection Mythical Man is to enter the body of Ly’s imagined monster: a monster erected to...

Spoken word recording:   You asked me how my hair got so black, and in your very next breath, told me to go back where do you want...

Your breath is / only learning its way eager, sporadic, chasing / the world to catch up