Abstract

In her Keynote Address, “Translations/Transnations/Transmogrifications: An Interactive Poetry Reading and Discussion of New Poems and Best Hits,” Marilyn Chin will open the PAMLA conference with an interactive poetry reading, selecting work from her new book Sage and from her best hits album…with a special focus on translation. Thursday, November 7, 11:55 am -12:50 pm, Crosby Ballroom B.

Presenter Biography

Marilyn Chin is an award-winning poet and author, professor emeritus of San Diego State University, and a self-professed “activist, subversive, radical, immigrant, feminist, transnational Buddhist neoclassical poet…and an inventor of a fusionist esthetics of bilingual and bicultural hybrid forms." Chin was born in Hong Kong and raised in Portland, Oregon. Her works have become Asian American classics and are taught in classrooms internationally. Marilyn Chin’s books of poems include Sage, A Portrait of the Self as Nation, Hard Love Province, Rhapsody in Plain Yellow, Dwarf Bamboo, and The Phoenix Gone, the Terrace Empty. She also published a book of magical fiction, Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen. In addition to writing poetry and fiction, she has translated poems by the modern Chinese revolutionary poet Ai Qing and co-translated poems by the Japanese poet Gozo Yoshimasu.