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Jeffrey Yang is the author of the poetry collections Vanishing-Line and An Aquarium. He is the translator of Liu Xiaobo’s June Fourth Elegies, Su Shi’s East Slope, and Rhythm 226 (out later), the editor of the poetry anthologies Birds, Beasts, and Seas: Nature Poems from New Directions and Time of Grief: Mourning Poems, and co-editor of the annual anthology of world literature, Two Lines: Some Kind of Beautiful Signal. His co-translation of Ahmatjan Osman’s Uyghurland, the Farthest Exile will be published by Phoneme Media in Fall 2014. He works at New Directions Publishing and New York Review Books.