There are one hundred kinds of Chinese silences: the silence of the unknown grandfathers; the silence of borrowed Buddha and rebranded Confucius; the silence of alluring stereotypes and exotic reticence...
"Victims are 'disappeared' and abductions are never resolved, yet she searches. Antígona recalls times past with her brother, remembrances, memories, in a journey of questions with no end."...
"The book begins with the pressing question of 'counting the dead' ('contar muertos'), and throughout confronts the issue of the body—the missing body, the violated body, the mutilated body, the disappeared body"...
"The essays in Some Versions of the Ice are erudite, intertextual, and jarring—they combine the complexities of the natural world with those of the perceptions of it made by minds prone to error."...
Congratulations to Sara Uribe and John Pluecker (Antígona González) for making it to the long list for the 2017 Best Translated Book Awards (BTBA) for Poetry....
Yu’s 100 Chinese Silences is a vital voice among this chorus that is growing louder by the minute speaking, singing and shouting the new sound of what it means to be Asian in America...