Yanyi
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An Evening at Berl's
Selections from poets who participated in the reading at Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop on July 20th, 2017. Organized by Jean Yoon, the evening featured performances by Madison McCartha, Yanyi, Jean, and La Llorona. Readers: https://twitter.com/madisonmccartha https://twitter.com/yanyi___ https://twitter.com/zenpartymix https://twitter.com/nataliemolina
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It’s strange but fulfilling to look through this book again, now published and read since this March. One of the curious strengths of the project and the poems is that they can truly be ordered in many permutations, orders that I have not done before. And even a mild change can create new sensation in the reading. Each permutation could have started a similar but different book. I’ve compiled a small selection, until now only published in the book, around the questions of wanting and having and not having yet, especially as we are made to believe about wealth, accumulated or not, which serves as a conduit for action, inaction, and all kinds of judgments we place on ourselves and other people. Then there’s the imagination—of character, of love, of living—whose abundance is only apparent in practice with it, in liberation. —Yanyi 30 July 2019
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