Nick Admussen is an assistant professor of Chinese literature at Cornell and the author of Recite and Refuse: Contemporary Chinese Prose Poetry, available in October 2016 from the Hawaii University Press. He is the author of three chapbooks, and his poetry has appeared in Fence, Boston Review, and DIAGRAM. He is an active translator from Chinese, and his translations of the Sichuan poet Ya Shi have appeared in Cha, New England Review, Asymptote and many other journals. [Distance]