Will Harris is the author of RENDANG, which was a PBS Choice and won the 2020 Forward Prize for Best First Collection. The collection is shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2021. He co-edited the spring 2020 issue of The Poetry Review with Mary Jean Chan. He has a pamphlet, All This Is Implied, published by HappenStance.
Photo: Etienne Gilfillan
From All the Birds Are Your Husband As Chinatown in Jackson Heights is really town-sized. More China-like than China. Whose steamed buns assume. Whose waving kitties assume. Nothing. Not of me. So with Liverpool’s Chinese lanterns. Tree-tangled knots of them dangling freely outside H&M. They make me think of you. They are not light but light hosted. Shaking.
Will Harris
From RENDANG (Granta, 2020)