My Tenantless Body

Published July 2019

Publisher: Poetry Translation Centre

translators: Dave Haysom, A K Blakemore

My Tenantless Body is the celebrated Sichuanese poet Yu Yoyo’s first publication in English. It presents a sensitive yet forceful new voice that leads us through the haunted nightscapes of China with dark wit. The book’s young protagonist veers in and out of focus: her thoughts always intensely clear, her feeling never simply clarified. In these poems the oblique and the plain-spoken seem to cross paths, picking one another’s pockets along the way.

《我空出来的身体》是余幼幼出版的第一本英文诗集。它展现了一种敏感而有力的新声音，以黑暗的智慧引领我们穿越中国的梦魇。书中年轻的主人公在焦点前后摇摆：她的思想总是非常清晰，她的感觉从来没有简单地理清。在这些诗中，拐弯抹角的人和直言不讳的人似乎在路上相遇。