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River-Horse
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On the Road Again
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One of China’s most significant contemporary poets, co-translated by former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith

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We meet him late in life: a quiet man, a good father and husband, a fixture in his Brooklyn neighborhood, a landlord and barber with a terrifying scar across his face. As the book unfolds, moving seam…
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