Behind the Isle: Translating Yi Lu's Poetry

How does a flower think?

Can the sea paint?

Would a mountain respond to our anger?

Why is it easier for us humans to write, speak, and feel about nature in a way that assumes nature as illiterate or unintelligent?

When would we let the earth teach us to walk better?

Yi Lu is a poet and theater scenographer from Fuzhou, a coastal city in the southern province of Fujian. Although she lived through the disastrous Cultural Revolution – she was ten when Mao launched it – in most of Sea Summit Yi writes not so much about politics as about the cosmic and the biological.