His poetry collections in Chinese—Elegies of Nanjing and Selected Poems of a Decade—have been widely anthologized. His first collection of translated poems, Original, was published in English in 2012. He is also the founding editor of Nanjing Criticism and the chief editor of the fiction column for the Western China Literary Journal. Huang Fan is the only poet presented here who has explicitly titled his poems “Elegies of Nanjing.” He has no one way of defining Nanjing, rather the city can take the form of “Chinar trees”, “the bone of youth”, “a gust of hot steam” the “skateboard of the moonlight”, or even himself. Time in Huang Fan’s poems is non-linear and overlapping. The poet exits simultaneously in youth, adulthood, and old age, dreaming two dreams at once: a final reconciliation with the world alongside a nightmare of falling into banality and death.