Yuan Changming, Author at INVERSE JOURNAL

Yuan Changming

Yuan Changming grew up in a remote village, started to learn the English alphabet in Shanghai at age 19 and published monographs on translation before leaving China. With a Canadian PhD in English, Yuan currently lives in Vancouver, where he has worked as a tutor, translator and publisher. Credits include ten Pushcart nominations, Best of the Best Canadian Poetry: Tenth Anniversary Edition, Best New Poems Online and publications in more than 1700 literary outlets across 46 countries.

The Art of Seeing — Five Poems by Yuan Changming — in Chinese with English Translation

November 25, 2020 | Poetry

Traversing multiple geographies, actual and digital, Yuan Changming brings us five poems in Chinese, with translations in English made by the poet himself. In conjunction, these five communicate a journey from the village to the city and back, from the digital stratosphere to landscapes of our natural world, from the East to the West and vice versa, bringing together verses that ultimately shape a journey into memory while offering a pause on the sidelines of recollection.