I Live Alone

perhaps I am willing
to be with you every day
raising ducks.
my heart, for the rest of my life
is a window pane
cleaned till it shines...

I Live Alone is part of a new bilingual Chinese poetry series. This collection of poems, in Chinese and English, explores Ye’s fascination with the natural world, displacement, loneliness, loss and her own self-discovery, in a lyrical and reflective voice, that shines with originality and passion. Lu Ye is one of China’s foremost female contemporary poets.

About the Author

Born in December, 1969, Lu Ye is a Chinese poet. She did her BA and MA at Shandong University and is now teaching at the University of Jinan, China. She has won a number of poetry awards, including the Chinese National Award for the Young Poets by Poetry Monthly (2015), the People's Literature Award (2011) and the Distinguished Achievement Award by Poetry Exploration (2016). She has also been elected one of "the Top 10 Best Young Women Poets of the New Century", awarded by Poetry Monthly, the Chinese Writers Association (2006).

Lu Ye was the poet-in-residence in Capital Normal University, Beijing, China (2005), the poet-in-residence of the KHN Center for the Arts in NE, USA (2008), and a visiting poet and scholar in Creighton University, Omaha, NE, USA (2006 and 2016, respectively). To date, she has published a number of poetry collections and novels in China.