Yanyi

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Yanyi
Yanyi at the Kundiman & Wikimedia NYC Edit-a-Thon for Asian American Literature, The Ace Hotel New York, May 2019
Yanyi at the Kundiman & Wikimedia NYC Edit-a-Thon for Asian American Literature, The Ace Hotel New York, May 2019
NationalityAmerican
EducationNew York University

Yanyi is an American poet and critic.[1] He won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize in 2018 for his first book, The Year of Blue Water.[2]

Life[]

Yanyi graduated from Columbia University in 2013.[3] He is an associate editor at Foundry and an MFA candidate at New York University.[1] He was an Asian American Writers' Workshop Margins Fellow in 2017-2018.[4] He was a 2015 Poets House Emerging Poets Fellow.[5]

The Year of Blue Water[]

In 2018, Yanyi's manuscript was selected as the winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. Carl Phillips, the judge for the competition, said of his manuscript: “As its title implies, ‘The Year of Blue Water’ reads as a record of time, a kind of daybook of observations in sentences so crystalline, spare, direct, and yet offhand, that it can be easy to miss, at first, the book’s complexity...The poems...[invite] us into the life they invoke, a life that both argues for and is an example of how identity is multifaceted: the poems’ speaker is an artist, of an apparent immigrant background, is trans, is deeply invested in friendship as a rescuing form of community. Identity, then, as not any one of these things but all of them, each marker of identity at once incidental and essential.”[6]

Works[]

  • The Year of Blue Water Yale University Press 2019. ISBN 9780300242645, OCLC 1107128416[2][7][8]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Yanyi". www.yanyiii.com. Retrieved 2019-05-05.
  2. ^ a b "Year of Blue Water | Yale University Press". yalebooks.yale.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-05.
  3. ^ "AitN: March 12, 2018". Columbia College Today. Retrieved December 21, 2020.
  4. ^ "2017 AAWW Margins & Open City Fellows". aaww.org. Retrieved 2019-05-05.
  5. ^ "Yanyi". Poets House. Retrieved 2019-05-05.
  6. ^ Ferro, Alden (2018-03-05). "Yanyi is named the 2018 Yale Younger Poet". YaleNews. Retrieved 2019-05-05.
  7. ^ "Writer Yanyi Reads A Poem From His Collection, 'The Year Of Blue Water'". NPR.org. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  8. ^ "a book review by L. Ali Khan: The Year of Blue Water (Yale Series of Younger Poets)". www.nyjournalofbooks.com. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
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