Hsia Yü

Hsia Yü is one of the most innovative and influential poets of the Chinese-speaking world, but she is also a highly respected avant-garde editor and artist-book designer. The poems represented in this issue of Plume are from her immensely popular fifth collection, Poems, Sixty of Them, which garnered the coveted Golden Butterfly Award for Book Design at the Taipei International Book Festival. What sold the jury was the unique design of the cover and inner flaps, which were completely varnished in scratch-and-read lottery card latex, under which were printed all the poems in the collection, a design feature that allowed each buyer to personalize his or own copy using the scratching technique called sgraffito.

  • Three Poems translated from Chinese by Steven Bradbury

    The ancient Greeks believed that if you took everything
  • We Came This Way to Know the Evening

    Here’s a riddle:
  • Personal Life | I, Too, Arrived Here in the End | Godard

    The universe is vast and boundless
  • from Fourteen Fourteenliners

    Why can say passion fruit for instance always begin again
  • The Plumber is Here

    The plumber is here
  • Dear Reader Are You Having a Good Day?

    Dear reader are you having a good day?
  • Ready to Be the Lover She Remembers Forever

    The gods are everywhere