New collection from Li Tien

Friend and translation collaborator Li Tien of Midland (MI) has just self-published a chapbook of 23 poems published in journals. Entitled No Rain No Rainbow the book includes work that has appeared in Mid-America Poetry Review, Orbis Quarterly International, The MacGuffin, White Pine Review and numerous others. Among the translations are three from the Chinese of Tien's father, Yu Y. Tien, as well as two Song Dynasty poems that Li and I translated and published in the March Street Press chapbook Drizzle and Plum Blossoms. Li's new chapbook is full of wonderful short poems. Some are meditations on the natural world, others looks back at his youth in occupied China. Drizzle and Plum Blossoms was reviewed last year at 360 Main Street by Matthew Falk. His review is here.