Ma Yongbo was born in 1964, Ph.D., translator, editor, and leading scholar of postmodern poetry. He has authored or translated more than 80 published books. His translations from English include works by Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, W.C. Williams, John Ashbery, Henry James, Moby Dick, Rosanna Warren, and others. He teaches at Nanjing University of Science and Technology. The Collected Poems of Ma Yongbo (Eastern Publishing Centre, 2024) celebrates 40 years of his poetry.

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