Memories of Mount Qilai: the education of a young poet

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Yang Mu was born and raised in Taiwan. He taught for many years at the University of Washington, Seattle, and National Donghua University in Hualien. He currently divides his time between Seattle and Hualien. He is the author of more than two dozen prose and poetry collections, including On the Water Margin, Flower Season, Lantern Boat, and Legends, as well as the experimental verse drama, Wu Feng: A Play in Four Acts. He recently received the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature. John Balcom teaches at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Recent publications include Li Ruis Trees Without Wind and Grass Roots: Selected Poems of Xiang Yang. He is a past president of the American Literary Translators Association. Yingtsih Balcom is a translator of Western and Chinese literature. She is a regular contributor to Taiwan Literature and has translated I. B. Singers Shosha and coedited Indigenous Writers of Taiwan.