The Year of Blue Water (Volume 113) (Yale Series of Younger Poets)

Winner of the 2018 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize

“Weaves together descriptions of experiences of immigration as a Chinese-American and of racism, mental wellness, and gender from a queer and trans…

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