Permeated with the loneliness of exile, these sensual lyric poems straddle the gap between Chinese and American sensibilities, politics, and culture. The poems contain both autobiography and a kind of universal biography—they weep, and sing, for us all.

Permeated with the loneliness of exile, these sensual lyric poems straddle the gap between Chinese and American sensibilities, politics, and culture. The poems contain both autobiography and a kind of universal biography—they weep, and sing, for us all.