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    Simon Shieh

    Dec 13, 2023 2 minutes

    Sarabande Books

    (Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry)

    To spite me, he hid the moonin the shadow of a jackrabbit, thedeepest cratersin its eyes.

    —from “Master (Five Nocturnes)”

    How it began: I started writing this book at twenty-four, soon after returning to Beijing to teach English at

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