Perennial Counterpart

Yongyu Chen

'Are these poems, or exploding postcards dispatched from the land of dreams? Yongyu Chen’s exquisite Perennial Counterpart balances conceptual density with a yearning lyricism: always strange, “unintelligible to the end,” but intelligible to those who speak the language of rain and flowers. A monumental debut, even as it sings the praise of the minor.' – Jackie Wang