by Xiao Yue Shan

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translated by Dave Haysom

就像所有受过“正 统”教育的年轻人一样，他们认为异国恋不但很正常， 而且帅呆了，酷毙了，美极了。

Like all young people who had received a modern education, they saw nothing wrong in a love that straddled nations. On the contrary, it was awesome, super, the best.

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translated by Tiantian Yuan and Jennifer Fossenbell

凸优化的麻雀
碳十四测年系列样本树轮校正的贝叶斯统计模型的麻雀由唯一标点的头颅
向我传递来动物的杀意

the sparrow of the Bayesian statistical model for calibrating the carbon-14 dating of a tree-ring sample series from its singular punctuation-marked skull
passes to me its animal intent to kill

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translated by Ana Padilla Fornieles

不过柠檬旅馆的一楼，还是做成了便利店的样子，灯光透彻，冷气全开，老板就坐在收银台旁，等着你拿柠檬过去付款。一颗，千万不能多拿。只要付上一整晚的房费，就能得到一颗完美的柠檬，多么美妙！

However, the first floor of the Lemon Hotel looked just like a convenience store, with its penetrating light and air conditioning on full blast. The owner would sit at the register, waiting for you to pay for a room and take a lemon—only one, never more! Pay for one night at the hotel and get a perfect lemon! How wonderful! I put away my lemon. It was my lemon, a sweet and cool lemon.

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translated by Kassy Lee and Zuo Fei

好在单据还没有丢，
上写着：十瓶天真，九包红枣，
七捆纯洁，六袋百合，
五叠冷静，已分三次寄出。

Fortunately, I kept the receipt,
and on it are these words: ten vases of innocence, nine packages of red dates,
seven bunches of purity, six sacks of lilies, and
five stacks of calm, mailed at three different times.

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translated by Nell Greenhouse

如果这首诗无以为食
像杂货铺前饿狗
搜遍了垃圾箱却
什么也没找到……

What if this poem has nothing to live off
Like a hungry dog at the door to the grocery store
Hunting through the refuse
Still finding nothing…

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translated by Deva Eveland, Remington Gillis, and Yidan Liu

他感觉到那些被图像充满的瞳孔在四周的黑暗中盯视着他。那些烙在他身体内部的星 辰，那些闪光的钉子，将那片黑夜钉在他的头方，那永恒的夜的穹隆，嵌在她身体内部无穷无尽的穹隆，将他完全地包裹在她的里面。

He imagined that the things he saw were stored inside eyes that stared at him from the surrounding darkness. The eyes were stars, were shining nails that pinned up the darkness above his head. The dome of eternal night, an infinite dome embedded in her body, completely enclosing him within her.

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edited by Jennifer Fossenbell, with contributions by Niamh Cunningham, Jaime Santirso, Una Yan, Jack Calder, and Iman Jabrah

The work proceeds in the spirit of experimentation —trying, risking, seeing what might erupt or seep out when we prod it.

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