Hsia Yü

HSIA YÜ is the author and designer of six volumes of groundbreaking verse, most recently Poems, Sixty of Them (2011). “Follow the herd and all occasion for regret will disappear” and “That was Then and This is Now but We’re finally in Synch” are from her fourth collection, Salsa, her most popular volume to date. She lives in Taiwan, where she co-edits the avant-garde journal and poetry initiative Xianzai Shi, otherwise known as Poetry Now. A full translation of Salsa, translated by Steve Bradbury, has just been released from Zephyr Press.