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Reading and Book Talk on "Wild Geese Sorrow: The Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island"

  • City Lore Gallery 56 East 1st Street New York, NY, 10003 United States (map)

Join poet and translater Jeffrey Thomas Leong for a night of celebration as he reads from his new book Wild Geese Sorrow: The Chinese Wall Inscriptions at Angel Island.

The poems of Wild Geese Sorrow are the first new translations of the Chinese wall inscriptions in nearly 40 years, and Leong has characterized these works as "a poetry of resistance which documents the unbearable hardships suffered by human beings."

Earlier Event: June 20
Kundiman Retreat