A review by theyoungveronica
My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree: Selected Poems by Yi Lei

5.0

"Better to be ravaged straightway in youth / Than to live out another year’s quiet undoing."

"I don’t want to know, or understand, or be restored / To reason."

"My flesh forsakes itself. Strangers’ eyes / Drill into me till I bleed. I beg God: Make me a ghost."

"Besieged, I sink / Into a dark world."