AAWWTV: Year of Blue Water Book Launch with Yanyi, Wo Chan, Erica Hunt, and Monica Youn

Join us for the launch of The Year of Blue Water, the debut poetry collection from Yanyi, the 2018 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets and an AAWW Margins Fellow. Intimate to the reader, elusive to the colonizer, the book creates a space of integration of variegated selves—an intellectual self, a queer self, a trans self, a Chinese self, an immigrant self, all of which share a kind of survival that is all his own. As Carl Phillips, who selected the book, writes: “As its title implies, The Year of Blue Water reads as a record of time, a kind of daybook of observations in sentences so crystalline, spare, direct, and yet offhand, that it can be easy to miss, at first, the book’s complexity.” Yanyi will be joined by poets Wo Chan (a fellow former AAWW Margins Fellow), Erica Hunt, and National Book Award Finalist Monica Youn, a member of the AAWW Board of Directors.