Sleepwalking by Yu Yoyo
20th July
This is a set of 11 connected poems. You will hear the Chinese poet Yu Yoyo reading hr original text interwoven with her poet-translator, AK Blakemore, reading her English translation.
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Sleepwalking
1your foetustinting the sheetsyour adult personalitytacked to the wallbeing birthed夜游症
1你出生前的结构被画在床单上出生后的性格被钉在墙壁上你出生时穿越了一年中最长的黑夜只为了让第二次出生不那么费劲你向上寻找乳房向下寻找脚印天亮的时候你长得像你的父亲天黑的时候…