My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree: Selected Poems of Yi Lei
By Tracy K. Smith, chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts and Professor of Creative Writing, and Changtai Bi
Published March 23, 2021
My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree examines the joys of the body, miracle of compassion, and the abiding reverence for the natural world, presented in the original Chinese alongside English translations by Smith and Bi.
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