Translated by Dong Li (Phoneme Media & Deep Vellum, paperback)
Publication Date: November 16, 2021
Publisher Marketing: In The Gleaner Song, Song Lin's first collection in the English Language, the lauded poet brings joy and contemplation of poetic expression.
Champion of Chinese classics and the growth of the Chinese poetic tradition, Song Lin's poetry holds a generous and exuberant aesthetic that makes amends with self-exile and political malcontent, weaving through international traditions of Latin America, United States, France, and more.
"This is a curious poet that opens himself to the world around him and gives back with his songs that migrate from one word to another, from one language to another. The landscape of his travels becomes a map of his poetry, which, in turn, amounts to a sensitive anthropology of our migratory world." - Translator Dong Li
