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November 2020

New Books by NER Authors

November 30, 2020

It’s been a great publication month for NER authors. New books this month include the book of essays How to Make a Slave by Jerald Walker, finalist for the 2020 National Book Award in Nonfiction; the debut memoir Lightning Flowers from Katherine E. Standefer; a nonfiction personal account of Syrian refugee camps from Steven Heighton; and a book of poetry written by Yang Jian and translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain. Also in poetry, November brought a new collection by Jessica Gigot, an NER poetry submissions reader, and collections by both Kazim Ali and John Kinsella, both frequent NER authors.

You can shop these November titles and more on the New England Review‘s Author Books Fall 2020 Bookshop page.

Filed Under: NER Authors' Books, News & Notes Tagged With: Fiona Sze-Lorrain, Jerald Walker, Jessica Gigot, John Kinsella, Katherine E. Standefer, Kazim Ali, Steven Heighton, Yang Jian

October 2020

New Books by NER Authors

October 27, 2020

Our authors have had a busy publication schedule this October! Some of their new books this month include include a mock-epic poem from Sydney Lea, a debut full-length poetry collection from Carlos Andrés Gómez, a series of personal essays from Peter LaSalle, a volume of poetry from Fiona Sze-Lorrain and a collection of essays from Michael Cohen.

Find them and more from the fall on the New England Review‘s new bookshelf at Bookshop.org.

Filed Under: Featured, NER Authors' Books, News & Notes Tagged With: Carlos Andrés Gómez, Fiona Sze-Lorrain, Michael Cohen, Peter LaSalle, Sydney Lea

Poet & Translator Fiona Sze-Lorrain to Read in Middlebury

Monday, October 3, 51 Main at the Bridge

September 9, 2016

sze-lorrain-202x300New England Review is pleased to present, along with partners in the departments of Chinese and Literary Studies, the amazingly accomplished and versatile poet, translator, and zheng harpist Fiona Sze-Lorrain. She’ll read from and discuss her new collection of poetry, The Ruined Elegance, and her translations of Chinese poetry, in particular Sea Summit, the new collection by Yi Lu. We first met Fiona through her translations of Yin Lichuan, which we published in 36.2.

Doors open at 7 for reception with light refreshments; the reading begins at 7:30. Books, cocktails, and other beverages will be available to purchase. The event is free and open to the public. Please join us at 51 Main at the Bridge, in Middlebury!

Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s latest poetry collection, The Ruined Elegance (Princeton University Press, 2015), was named by Library Journal as one of its “Best Books 2015: Poetry” and was a finalist for the 2016 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Sea Summit (Milkweed Editions, 2015), her book of translations by the Chinese poet Yi Lu was shortlisted for the 2016 Best Translated Book Award.  Sze-Lorrain works in English, French, and Chinese, and serves as an editor at Vif Éditions, an independent press in Paris. She is also an accomplished zheng harpist.

Sponsored by the Greenberg-Starr Department of Chinese Language and Literature, New England Review, and the Program in Literary Studies at Middlebury College.

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: Fiona Sze-Lorrain

Yin Lichuan

Korea, North Korea

January 14, 2016

Translation from NER 36.2. 

I want to go to Korea
I want to go to the Square
to the floral-printed North Korea

a holiday with the Koreans:
flowers in torrential waves
old people and children arranged into squares
young smiles frozen into walls
women with gazes like torches
leader standing before his portrait
all walk at the same pace

—translated from the Chinese by Fiona Sze-Lorrain

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Yin Lichuan, poet, fiction writer, film director, and scriptwriter, rose to literary notoriety as a founder and the most prominent member of the “Lower Body” movement, based in Beijing during the early 2000s. Born in 1973 in Chongqing, Sichuan Province, she studied French at Beijing University and earned a graduate degree in filmmaking in Paris at École supérieure libre d’études cinématographiques (ESEC). Her publications include a collection of selected writings, Feel a Bit More Comfort (2001); a novel, Bitch (2002); and three volumes of poetry, Karma (2006), Wet Paint (2007), and The Doors (2015). A volume of selected poems, Karma, translated by Fiona Sze-Lorrain, is forthcoming from Zephyr Press. Since 2006, Yin has devoted herself to filmmaking; her debut feature, The Park, was released in 2007, and Knitting premiered at the Cannes Festival in 2008. She lives in Beijing.

Fiona Sze-Lorrain is the author of two poetry collections, My Funeral Gondola (El Leon Literary Arts, 2013) and Water the Moon (Marick Press, 2010), and several translations of contemporary Chinese, French, and American poets. She lives in France and works as a zheng harpist and editor. 

Filed Under: Translations Tagged With: Fiona Sze-Lorrain, Yin Lichuan

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