Our book of the week is our Translation Choice for Spring 2026: Impossible Paradise by Chen Yuhong, translated by George O’Connell and Diana Shi. (Carcanet)
One of Taiwan’s most celebrated poets, Chen Yuhong draws on both Western and Asian literary traditions, inflected by her work as a translator of contemporary English-language women poets (Glück, Oswald, Duffy). We've been really looking forward to sharing this book, as this selection makes her poems widely available in English for the first time. Reflective and atmospheric, Impossible Paradise is perfect reading for the shifting seasons.
"Chen’s expansive curiosity is refracted through two English voices attuned to her every shimmer."
– Leo Boix, PBS Selector
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