Yanyi - September 28, 2023

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Yanyi reads from his two published collections, The Year of Blue Water (2019) and Dream of the Divided Field (2022), opening with two early, uncollected poems and closing with one recent draft. Intimacy emerges as a thematic center—in friendships, romantic relationships, and with the self.

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Welcome
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by Tyler Meier

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Introduction
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by Aria Pahari

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Opening Remarks
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"Brunch"
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Uncollected.

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"The Kiss"
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Yanyi. "The Kiss." Memorious, issue 28, November 2017. Web. Accessed 19 October 2023.

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"Dream Diary"
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Yanyi. The Year of Blue Water. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.

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"I'm working on being alone today…"
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Yanyi. The Year of Blue Water. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.

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"Doreen and LiZhen are generous…"
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Yanyi. The Year of Blue Water. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.

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"What I also mean to say is…"
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Yanyi. The Year of Blue Water. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.

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"Here's what it's like if it's hard…"
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Yanyi. The Year of Blue Water. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.

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"There are places I can't go…"
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Yanyi. The Year of Blue Water. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.

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"For a long time, I was attached…"
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Yanyi. The Year of Blue Water. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.

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"It was graduation…"
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Yanyi. The Year of Blue Water. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.

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"She had hit me many other times…"
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Yanyi. The Year of Blue Water. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.

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"She tells me that she feels guilty…"
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Differs slightly from published version, which begins "She tells me she feels guilty..."

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Yanyi. The Year of Blue Water. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.

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"Form gives space for something to exist…"
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Yanyi. The Year of Blue Water. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.

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"Originally, this was a book about…"
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Yanyi. The Year of Blue Water. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.

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"My mother tells me something…"
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Yanyi. The Year of Blue Water. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.

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"You tell me that the old you…"
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Yanyi. The Year of Blue Water. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.

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"Even though I didn't know M very well…"
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Yanyi. The Year of Blue Water. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.

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"Imagine every day you wake up to…"
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Yanyi. The Year of Blue Water. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.

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"I have been writing to women…"
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Yanyi. The Year of Blue Water. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.

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"Last night, I had a dream about…"
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Yanyi. The Year of Blue Water. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.

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"Of all the things I have done…"
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Yanyi. The Year of Blue Water. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.

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"Coming Over"
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Yanyi. Dream of the Divided Field. New York: One World, 2022.

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"Leaving the House"
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Yanyi. Dream of the Divided Field. New York: One World, 2022.

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"Landscape with a Hundred Turns"
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Yanyi. Dream of the Divided Field. New York: One World, 2022.

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"Aubade (In Names)"
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Yanyi. Dream of the Divided Field. New York: One World, 2022.

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"Reconstruction"
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Differs slightly from published version.

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Yanyi. Dream of the Divided Field. New York: One World, 2022.

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"Catallus 85"
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Differs slightly from published version.

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Yanyi. Dream of the Divided Field. New York: One World, 2022.

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"The Friend"
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Differs slightly from published version.

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Yanyi. Dream of the Divided Field. New York: One World, 2022.

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"Eurydice at the Mouth"
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Yanyi. Dream of the Divided Field. New York: One World, 2022.

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"Detail"
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Yanyi. Dream of the Divided Field. New York: One World, 2022.

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"Deconstruction"
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Yanyi. Dream of the Divided Field. New York: One World, 2022.

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"Aubade"
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Yanyi. Dream of the Divided Field. New York: One World, 2022.

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"Once"
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Yanyi. Dream of the Divided Field. New York: One World, 2022.

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"Beginning of Spring"
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Uncollected.

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Paola Valenzuela
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