Fiona Sze-Lorrain is one of the rare few English-language poets of our times who works across genres and artistic expressions, as well as more than three languages or cultures. In this reading, she will present poems from her latest collection, Rain in Plural (Princeton, 2020), and her new translations of contemporary Chinese-language and American poets. She will also discuss the role and aesthetics of poetry beyond language/culture in a seemingly globalized yet politically fragile world, and the relationship between her writing, music, art, and life.
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Fiona Sze-Lorrain is a poet, translator, editor, and zheng harpist who writes and translates in English, French, Chinese, and occasionally Spanish. Her latest poetry title out from Princeton is Rain in Plural (2020). Also the author of The Ruined Elegance (2016), a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and two earlier collections, My Funeral Gondola (2014) and Water the Moon (2010), she has translated more than a dozen books of contemporary Chinese, French, and American poetry. A 2019-20 Abigail R. Cohen Fellow at the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination, she lives in Paris and co-runs a small independent press, Vif Éditions.