Yin Xiaoyuan

12Aug 2018 Yin Xiaoyuan

Wolfram

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“Optics is the philosophy of extracting daylight from night.” In the eternal gloominess after the withering of a candle, at last he lifted his hands so dusty with silver grey.... Read More

1Jun 2018 Yin Xiaoyuan

Alternating Current, Either Turbulent or Serene

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On the beach, you asked the man in grayish windbreaker: ‘How do you define ‘The Will’?’ He drew a sine-wave with his finger in the sand, then wiped it away... Read More

A bit about Yin: Yin Xiaoyuan (Yīn Xiǎoyuán, “殷晓媛” in Chinese) is an avant-garde, crossover epic poet as well as a trans-genre & multilingual writer, founder of Encyclopedic Poetry School (est. 2007), initiator of hermaphroditic writing movement and chief drafter of Declaration of Hermaphroditic Writing. She is author of 18 encyclopedic epics (which add up to a total of 70 thousand lines) and 24 series of poems with themes varying from physics to chemistry, biology, geography, geology, psychology, calligraphy, photography, musicology, geometry, atmospheric sciences and information sciences. She is member of China Writers Association, Translators Association of China and Poetry Institute of China. Her works written in Chinese, English, Japanese, German and French were widely published home and abroad in U.S.A., Canada, Japan, Germany, Australian and Thailand, etc. She has published eight books including four poetry anthologies: Ephemeral Memories, Beyond the Tzolk'in, Avant-garde Trilogy and Agent d’ensemencement des nuages (Encyclopedic Poetry School’ 10th Anniversary Series).