Floral Mutter

Advance galleys to Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, New Yorker, NPR; Review and feature article campaign to 50 publications, including poetry, Asian, mainstream; 25 copies to GoodReads and Library Thing; Featured title at AWP, Boston Book Fair, Brooklyn Book Festival, ALTA; Eblasts to creative writing, Chinese/Asian Studies departments; Book tour to New York, Ithaca, Boston and elsewhere on East Coast; Social media campaign on FaceBook, Twitter; Potential core text for World Literature, Comparative Literature, Creative Writing courses; Ads in Chinese Literature Today, Rain Taxi;

A math teacher living 1,000 miles from the literary center of Beijing offers daring, restless nature sonnets, free verse, and genre-bending prose poems.Ya Shi, an “outsider” poet, who teaches math and lives 1,000 miles from the Beijing literary scene, is celebrated among lovers of Chinese poetry from the conservative to the avant-garde. This bilingual (Chinese/English) collection draws together jagged and intense short lyrics, wild nature sonnets, and genre-bending prose poetry from across his career. His work is rooted in the independent spirit, folk imagination and tough music of the people of Sichuan, and combines iconoclasm and heart to demonstrate what's possible in Chinese poetry today.