Yun Wang is the author of poetry books The Book of Totality (Salmon Poetry Press, 2015) and The Book of Jade (Winner of the 15th Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, Story Line Press, 2002), poetry chapbooks Horse by the Mountain Stream (Word Palace Press, 2016) and The Carp (Bull Thistle Press, 1994), and a book of translations, Dreaming of Fallen Blossoms: Tune Poems of Su Dong-Po (White Pine Press, forthcoming 2019). Wang’s poems have been published in numerous literary journals, including Kenyon Review Online, Prairie Schooner, Cimarron Review, and Salamander Magazine. She is a cosmologist at California Institute of Technology.
Poetry
Spring 1996
The Pain Fish
The only time Father cried out in pain he lay in a hospital bed with three broken ribs. A hundred clubs striking down from Red Guards never made Father break […]
Sept/Oct 2018
Two Poems of Su Dong-Po
Translated from Chinese To the Tune of “The Joy of Returning to Court” In Reply to Su Bo-Gu I dreamed I was in a little boat floating on Thunder Lake […]
