Yanyi
Yanyi | |
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 Yanyi at the Kundiman & Wikimedia NYC Edit-a-Thon for Asian American Literature, The Ace Hotel New York, May 2019 | |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Columbia University (BA) New York University (MFA) |
| Notable awards | Yale Series of Younger Poets (2018) |
Yanyi is an American poet and critic.[1] He won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize in 2018 for his first book, The Year of Blue Water.[2]
Life
[edit]Yanyi graduated from Columbia University in 2013.[3] He is an associate editor at Foundry and an MFA candidate at New York University.[1] He was an Asian American Writers' Workshop Margins Fellow in 2017-2018.[4] He was a 2015 Poets House Emerging Poets Fellow.[5] He was a 2019 James Merrill House Fellow.
The Year of Blue Water
[edit]In 2018, Yanyi's manuscript was selected as the winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. Carl Phillips, the judge for the competition, said of his manuscript: “As its title implies, ‘The Year of Blue Water’ reads as a record of time, a kind of daybook of observations in sentences so crystalline, spare, direct, and yet offhand, that it can be easy to miss, at first, the book’s complexity...The poems...[invite] us into the life they invoke, a life that both argues for and is an example of how identity is multifaceted: the poems’ speaker is an artist, of an apparent immigrant background, is trans, is deeply invested in friendship as a rescuing form of community. Identity, then, as not any one of these things but all of them, each marker of identity at once incidental and essential.”[6]
Identity features prominently in Yanyi's work, who said of this collection, "What I was writing had to be free from the idea of it being a product—free of the idea that it would educate people about what it's like to be a queer and trans Chinese-American person in the world."[7]
Later works
[edit]In 2022, Dream of the Divided Field was published. Yanyi said, "The book asks the larger question of how one retains or has a self between two moments in time. It asks if it is possible for that same person to exist."[8]
Works
[edit]- The Year of Blue Water, Yale University Press 2019. ISBN 9780300242645, OCLC 1107128416[2][9][10]
- Dream of the Divided Field Penguin Random House (One World) 2022. ISBN 9780593230992.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Yanyi". www.yanyiii.com. Retrieved 2019-05-05.
- ^ a b "Year of Blue Water | Yale University Press". Yale University Press. Retrieved 2019-05-05.
- ^ "AitN: March 12, 2018". Columbia College Today. 12 March 2018. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
- ^ "2017 AAWW Margins & Open City Fellows". aaww.org. Retrieved 2019-05-05.
- ^ "Yanyi". Poets House. Retrieved 2019-05-05.
- ^ Ferro, Alden (2018-03-05). "Yanyi is named the 2018 Yale Younger Poet". YaleNews. Retrieved 2019-05-05.
- ^ "BOMB Magazine | Love is Something We Inherit: Yanyi Interviewed". BOMB Magazine. Retrieved 2023-04-26.
- ^ Morehead, James (2022-09-27). "Yanyi's "Dream of the Divided Field" Explores the Separation of Self [INTERVIEW]". Viewless Wings. Retrieved 2023-04-26.
- ^ "Writer Yanyi Reads A Poem From His Collection, 'The Year Of Blue Water'". NPR.org. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
- ^ "a book review by L. Ali Khan: The Year of Blue Water (Yale Series of Younger Poets)". www.nyjournalofbooks.com. Retrieved 2019-09-25.