Poem of the Week | February 24, 2012
Lynda Hull: "Counting in Chinese"
[This text is also available online as part of our TextBox anthology.]
This week we’ve dug up a classic by Lynda Hull. This poem was first published in the Fall of 1987 in TMR 10.3. Hull was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1954. Her collections include Ghost Money (1986), recipient of the Juniper Prize; Star Ledger (1991), which won the 1991 Carl Sandburg and 1990 Edwin Ford Piper awards; and The Only World: Poems, published posthumously in 1995 and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. In 2006, Graywolf Press published her Collected Poems, edited by her husband, David Wojahn.
Counting in Chinese
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