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Generational breakdowns: Deep time fissures & abyssal geological vortices vs. Greatest Generation nostalgia vs. MAGA

Wednesday, June 12, 2019

It’s really something, isn’t it, to reckon with generational narratives, such as that of the Greatest Generation and the US role in WWII, in light of MAGA on one hand and, on the other, the end-Holocene transition into the [ ]? My father recently shared via group email a truly touching Memorial Day Salon column by US military family […]

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Soft focus, soft censorship, self-censorship: “Poetry,” “China,” and Biz Journo Expats

Thursday, April 6, 2017

As much of a pleasure as it was to appear at the Shanghai International Literary Festival with Jen Bervin, Jen Hyde and Wen Jin, it was one mixed — as is always the case for me here in Shanghai — with significant measures of the odd and the off. Don’t get me wrong: One of the things I like about life in […]

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Expat Taxes

Friday, September 2, 2016

Expat Taxes is officially out and available on Amazon and via Seaweed Salad Editions. The book collects poems written over the past decade of living in Shanghai and is anchored by the long poem “Hello 2015” (a chunk of which The Brooklyn Rail published last April). The original plan was to publish “Hello” as a chapbook, but we […]

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