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

5.0

My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree is a gorgeous collection of poetry, beautifully translated by Changtai Bi and Tracy K. Smith, with the former providing literal translations and the latter ensuring the poetry maintained the feeling of the originals. So many of the poems in this collection are absolutely stunning, but my favourites were probably A Single Woman's Bedroom, Nightmare, Love's Dance, Postperpetual, and Mother--. I would highly recommend this dual-language collection, and Yi Lei is a poet whose work I would love to revisit after this (and honestly has me ready to finally get around to the original work of Tracy K. Smith as well).