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C R I B S
By Yunte Huang
 2004 $13
Design by Kristina Bell

from "Tofu Your Life"

frame de frame
rule de rule

______________
|__ your life___-|
| __a small____ |
| __square tofu -|
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unnegotiable shape
soft to chopstick

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Yunte Huang came to the U.S. in 1991 after graduating from Peking University with a B.A. in English. He received his Ph.D. from the Poetics Program at SUNY-Buffalo in 1999 and taught as an Assistant Professor of English at Harvard University from 1999-2003. He is the author of Transpacific Displacement: Ethnography, Translation, and Intertextual Travel in Twentieth-Century American Literature (2002) and Shi: A Radical Reading of Chinese Poetry (1997), and the translator into Chinese of Ezra Pound's The Pisan Cantos. He is currently working on two book projects, "The Deadly Space Between": Literature and History in the Age of Transpacific Imagination and Poetry and Globalization: Essays in the Poetics of Medium and Translation.

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