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She has translated four books of poetry/poetry criticism into Chinese and co-translated four volumes of poetry from Chinese into English including The Book of Cranes (Vagabond Press 2015) and Empty Chairs (Graywolf Press 2015)

At the same time the poems refuse to preclude any one register—high

and the diaspora experience

Avianti Armand, Women Whose Names Were Erased unexpected [Translated by Eliza Vitri Handayani. Reading Holy Books is like entering a labyrinth. In that labyrinth fact and fiction are tangled. Worlds intertwined with words. And those words present a chunk of a universe, which is incomplete and not entirely truthful, it hides some things that we do not yet know. The poems in this book are lifted off the Holy Books, The Old Testament. The book is rendered with women who are present, alive, and weaving history