Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
John Yau
Born: June 5, 1950 (age 75)
Bio: John Yau is an American poet and critic who lives in New York City. He received his B.A. from Bard College in 1972 and his M.F.A. from Brooklyn College in 1978. He has published over 50 books of poetry, artists' books, fiction, and art criticism.
Known for:
- Borrowed love poems (2002)
- Further Adventures in Monochrome (2012)
- A thing among things (2008)
- Forbidden entries (1996)
- Paradiso diaspora (2006)