The Ruins: Poems

By Hui Ye

A collection of beautifully resonant metaphysical poems from a singular voice in contemporary Chinese poetry.

Here's a witch poet walking backward into the future. There's an architect dispelling illusions and inviting us into communal living. The poems collected in The Ruins rise from a primordial wisdom that resists the quarrels of the marketplace, that keeps company under a leaky authoritarian roof and rubs off its burn, that carves out its own impossible freedom. In Dong Li's luminous translation of Ye's first full-length collection, each poem braids myth and mystery, inviting the reader into a liminal space where "echoes of the ancient, the imagined, and the 'now' sound off each other" on the page (The Cincinnati Review).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1646054059
• ISBN13: 9781646054053
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Phoneme Media
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"