Press
Selected Media Coverage on the Web
- Taipei Times review of “Ocean Hieroglyphics”
- China Post review of “Ocean Hieroglyphics”
- “Biung Home Again” from A Far Corner, on the Kyoto Journal website
- “Gig of the Week” preview from the Taipei Times, 2001
- “Urban Hieroglyphics” Beijing performance with local artists
- Review of “Ocean Hieroglyphics”
- Description of “Ocean Hieroglyphics” from record label website
Words on the Work
“Ishi” is a wonderful poem full of deep beauty. Again and again it is full of rich, wonderful language. It is often very Whitmanesque in its oracular tone.
—Karen Swenson, winner of the National Poetry Series Prize for The Landlady in Bangkok (Copper Canyon Press).
“American Blue Book” is brilliant work: command of language, passion—it’s all there. “American Blue Book” is a work of grand vision.
—Mike Morical, MA in creative writing (poetry), City College of New York.
Extremities of Being is the first ever English narrative of Xinjiang in a truly poetic form.
—Gates scholar Ross Anthony, Ph.D. program, Anthropology Department, Cambridge University (specializing in Western China).
In my opinion, certain sections of “Ocean Hieroglyphics” are among the best poetry written in the English language.
—Shuen-shing Lee, (Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of Washington, Professor of Literature at Chung Hsing National University, Taiwan.)
Brilliant work—a swashbuckling guitarist-poet cutting a swath across Asia.
—Journalist Dave Good (San Diego Reader) on Extremities of Being
I was dazzled by the combination of elements in “American Blue Book” —war, terror, corporatism, San Francisco. It’s also an incredibly romantic love poem.
—Cheryl Chow, poet and filmmaker.