A Conversation with Shangyang Fang by Victoria Chang.

You also quote a line from her poem, "Song"in your poem, "Nude Descending a Staircase" where youwrite: "As if she were trying hard / to decode her body.It was harder work than she had imagined." I am reading When theLight of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: ANorton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry and works fromthe Estonian poet Doris Kareva, the Belgian poet HugoClaus, the Macedonian poet Nikola Madzirov, returning toAdélia Prado, Gennadiy Aygi, Zbigniew Herbert, YehudaAmichai, and poets from Africa and Southeast Asia. VC: I always love food references in poems and there area few in yours as well, specifically in the poem, "Fish"which I loved. There was only one poem in the book that's beentranslated from my Chinese poem, Utterance of a FoldingFan. [Extracted from the article]