The Chinese poet Xue Di came to the United States immediately after the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989 in Beijing, becoming writer-in-residence at Brown University and a fellow in Brown's Freedom to Write program. Across Borders, his third book of poetry, presents in a bilingual (Chinese and English) edition marvelously rich prose poems, shimmering with dream-like detail.
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The Chinese poet Xue Di came to the United States immediately after the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989 in Beijing, becoming writer-in-residence at Brown University and a fellow in Brown's Freedom to Write program. Across Borders, his third book of poetry, presents in a bilingual (Chinese and English) edition marvelously rich prose poems, shimmering with dream-like detail.