The Year of Blue Water (Yale Series of Younger Poets): Volume 113

by Carl Phillips (Author), Carl Phillips (Author), Yanyi Yanyi (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2019

  $21.43

  How can a search for self-knowledge reveal art as a site of community? Yanyi's arresting and straightforward poems weave experiences of immigration as a Chinese American, of racism, of mental wellness, and of gender from a queer and trans perspective. Between the contrast of high lyric and direct prose poems, Yanyi invites the reader to consider how to speak with multiple identities through trauma, transition, and ordinary life.
  
  These poems constitute an artifact of a groundbreaking and original author whose work reflects a long journey self-guided through tarot, therapy, and the arts. Foregrounding the power of friendship, these poems converse with friends as much as artists both living and dead, from Agnes Martin to Maggie Nelson to Robin Coste Lewis. This breathtaking collection gives voice to the multifaceted humanity within all of us and inspires attention, clarity, and hope through artmaking and community.