poetry
émigré, 2018, Tinfish Press. Now available at $13 presale.
What people are saying:
A slip, a lilt, doucement into the folds of this book, and there you will find “a précision/blade turned” — in these delicate, sharply turning moments of near-translation, my mind’s ear flickers back and forth, no terre to land upon, no land to rester en place. I sit beside the restless murmur of Genève Chao’s language, the echoes of nouns and verbs that refuse domestication, resist the erasure – of those who have left, émigré, wondering, “brutal/et absolu.”
— Sawako Nakayasu
When I circle all the words I do not know in Chao’s Émigré, the pages become bold with textual mime. Thought bubble after thought bubble of bl-understanding test one’s openness to learning. Chao’s powerful work obliges us as, more than readers, social actors in a very real world. Again and again, the poems ask us – in regret, in defiance, in hope – if we can be as curious, patient, and kind towards human beings as words. I dare you to rise to the challenge.
— Ya-Wen Ho
émigré, in its interweaving of four languages, is a strange experiment for the reader, as if their own language were delocalized, moving into and out of tongues as one follows the continuum of the text. And the tour de force is probably that the speech, in these poems, seems to take place in an unlocated interval – a space in between, “like foreign / ghosts.”
post hope (chapbook), Locofo/Moria
Hillary Is Dreaming, Make Now Books
one of us is wave one of us is shore, Otis Books | Seismicity Editions
translations
Tristran, by Gérard Cartier, [lx] press
Encrusted on the Living, by Nicolas Tardy (with François Luong), [lx] press
anthologies
The Best American Experimental Writing, 2018 (forthcoming)
States of the Nation, 2017
The L.A. Telephone Book, vol. 2 (ed. Brian Kim Stefans, 2014)
A Review of Two Worlds: French and American Poetry in Translation (Otis Books | Seismicity Editions, 2005)
(Some From) DIAGRAM (Del Sol Press, 2003)
Ma Langue Est Poétique: selected poems of Christophe Tarkos (Roof Books, 2000)