The Year of Blue Water

Winner of the 2018 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize

“Weaves together descriptions of experiences of immigration as a Chinese-American and of racism, mental wellness, and gender from a queer and trans perspective.”—Publishers Weekly

2020 Lambda Literary Awards finalist transgender poetry category

How can a search for self‑knowledge reveal art as a site of community? Yanyi’s arresting and straightforward poems weave experiences of immigration as a Chinese American, of racism, of mental wellne...