Ma Yongbo

Ma Yongbo was born in 1964. A practitioner of Chinese avant-garde poetry, translator, editor, and leading scholar of postmodern poetry, he has authored or translated more than 70 published books. Ma is a professor in the Faculty of Arts and Literature at Nanjing University of Science and Technology. His translations from English include works by Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, W. C. Williams, John Ashbery, Henry James, Herman Melville, May Sarton, Rosanna Warren, and others.