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The Year of Blue Water (Yale Series of Younger Poets)

di Yanyi

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Winner of the 2018 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize How can a search for self†'knowledge reveal art as a site of community? Yanyi's arresting and straightforward poems weave experiences of immigration as a Chinese American, of racism, of mental wellness, and of gender from a queer and trans perspective. Between the contrast of high lyric and direct prose poems, Yanyi invites the reader to consider how to speak with multiple identities through trauma, transition, and ordinary life.   These poems constitute an artifact of a groundbreaking and original author whose work reflects a long journey self†'guided through tarot, therapy, and the arts. Foregrounding the power of friendship, Yanyi's poems converse with friends as much as with artists both living and dead, from Agnes Martin to Maggie Nelson to Robin Coste Lewis. This instructive collection gives voice to the multifaceted humanity within all of us and inspires attention, clarity, and hope through art-making and community.… (altro)
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This is a collection of prose poems that are almost essay/diary-like in form that are an excavation of identity in conversation with self, friends, poetry. They are a unique account of finding one's self as a young adult, questioning gender, negotiating the generational divides in being part of a Chinese-American immigrant family, mental wellness, and learning how to take care of yourself. This was also a rec from Laura Sackton's list of 100 Trans Books she loves! ( )
  greeniezona | Feb 18, 2024 |
I received a copy from NetGalley, so that might be the issue I had with the book. I know that format plays little in the review, but when it's distracting, the quality of the book suffers. I don't have issue with prose poems. I wish I could give a better review of the book, but I do plan on purchasing a copy when it's released on March 26 in order to give a better review. ( )
  ennuiprayer | Jan 14, 2022 |

The Year of Blue Water by Yanyi is a collection of mostly prose poems covering a variety of current identity issues. Yanyi is a poet and critic who has received fellowships from the Asian American Writers' Workshop, Poets House, and the Millay Colony for the Arts.

Racism, gender identity, orientation, and the idea of duality come into play in the poems. The poems themselves flow like stream of consciousness, but the stream seems much more polished with a natural structure and refinement.

What you touch will come to life: a whole room sprung in backwards words of people untalking to you.

The topics gently shift and flow. Being poor as a child and longing for Cherioes because they were so much better than the cheap copies. Later in life depression -- being trapped in one's self and part of the self not wanting to go on or taking personality tests to find out the person you are supposed because you are unable to or confused by what you think of yourself. Boundaries of one's self are more complex than nineteenth-century French cities whose boundaries were set by the reach of the church bells peal.

The Year of Blue Water is a deep and exploratory account of one person's life and confusion when examining one's self and the world around. Masculinity is no longer driven by the male John Wayne figure and feminity no longer constrained by either June Cleaver. In the seventies, one British band would explain that "It was a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world." Then it was a fringe idea today the grey areas become much more substantial than in the old duality. The order of a binary system has seemed to fade in everything from health and unhealthy to the world locked in as capitalist and communist systems. Yanyi explores the complexity of his own life in this fluid collection of prose poetry. ( )
  evil_cyclist | Mar 16, 2020 |
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Winner of the 2018 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize How can a search for self†'knowledge reveal art as a site of community? Yanyi's arresting and straightforward poems weave experiences of immigration as a Chinese American, of racism, of mental wellness, and of gender from a queer and trans perspective. Between the contrast of high lyric and direct prose poems, Yanyi invites the reader to consider how to speak with multiple identities through trauma, transition, and ordinary life.   These poems constitute an artifact of a groundbreaking and original author whose work reflects a long journey self†'guided through tarot, therapy, and the arts. Foregrounding the power of friendship, Yanyi's poems converse with friends as much as with artists both living and dead, from Agnes Martin to Maggie Nelson to Robin Coste Lewis. This instructive collection gives voice to the multifaceted humanity within all of us and inspires attention, clarity, and hope through art-making and community.

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