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Poet and zheng harpist Fiona Sze-Lorrain (Sea Summit, 2016) delivers the keynote at Augusta University’s Writers Weekend, their annual spring creative writing conference. Presenters at the conference include writer and director Whit Stillman, Cinelle Barnes, Eric Smith, Laura Leigh Morris, Stephanie Kartalopoulos, and Frank Iodice.
Sponsors for 2019 include the English and Foreign Languages Department of Augusta University (AU), AU’s Communication Department, AU’s Office of Student Life and Engagement, AU’s Confucius Institute, AU’s International Initiatives, The Book Tavern, and the Authors’ Club of Augusta.
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Fiona Sze-Lorrain
Fiona Sze-Lorrain writes and translates in English, French, and Chinese. Most recently, she is the translator of Yi Lu’s Sea Summit, a finalist for the Best Translated Book Award in 2016, and author of The Ruined Elegance, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry.
The sea is an impossible force in this collection: it is both a majestic presence that predates man, and something to carry with us wherever we go. These brilliantly translated poems, presented in both Chinese and English, introduce an important contemporary Chinese poet to American readers.