Marilyn Chin is the author of Hard Love Province (2014) and Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen (2009) among other titles. Her writing has appeared in the Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry. She has won numerous awards for her poetry, including five Pushcart Prizes, and has taught in a variety of workshops. In addition to writing poetry and fiction, she has translated poems by the modern Chinese poet Ai Qing and by the Japanese poet Gozo Yoshimasu.
Nature’s Nature
May/June 2022
You Go, Me Stay, Two Autumns
行く我にとゞまる汝に秋二つ — Masaoka Shiki Wipe the lipstick off the milk carton Get off your high horse and wicked palanquin Dye your ancestral roots kryptonite Day-Glo Paint your opposable thumbs Urban Decay […]
Asian-American Literature
Spring 1995
Cauldron
Gerneralissimo Yuan Shih Kai, your horse went mad. He danced a ribbon around the character named "chaos." Oh grand master, won't you let the light in, this human destiny, scroll […]
Asian-American Literature
Spring 1995
The Colonial Language Is English
Heaven manifests its dualityMy consciousness on earth is two-foldMy parents speak with two tonguesMy mother's tongue is ToisanMy father's tongue is CantoneseThe colonial language is EnglishI and thou, she and […]
Poetry
Autumn 1991
Tienanmen, the Aftermath
for the Chinese Democratic Movement There was blood and guts all over the road. I said I’m sorry, darling, and rolled over, expecting the slate to be clean; but she […]
Poetry
Autumn 1991
Turtle Soup
for Ben Huang You go home one evening tired from work, and your mother boils you turtle soup. Twelve hours hunched over the hearth, (who knows what else is in […]
Weekend Reads
Turtle Soup
From The Kenyon Review, New Series, Fall 1991, Vol. XIII, No.4 for Ben Huang You go home one evening tired from work, and your mother boils you turtle soup. Twelve […]