Mich le Metail, born in France in 1950, is a Sinologist, a photographer, and an avant-garde poet. She was the first female member of Oulipo and the co-founder of Dixit, a group dedicated to sound poetry. She is the author of two dozen books of poetry and translations from the Chinese, which she often performs accompanied by music and projected images. This is her first book in English translation. Jody Gladding has published three collections of poems-most recently, Translations from Bark Beetle-and more than thirty translations from the French. She has received the French-American Foundation Translation Award, the Whiting Writers' Award, and the Yale Younger Poets Prize. She lives in Calais, Vermont. Jeffrey Yang's most recent poetry collection is Vanishing-Line. His translation of Bei Dao's autobiography, City Gate, Open Up, will be published in Spring 2017. He works as an editor at New York Review Books and New Directions Publishing.