A longtime resident of the United States, Wai-lim Yip has been active for over 45 years as a bicultural poet, translator, critic & theorist with special contribution to East-West comparative literature, aesthetics, & comparative poetics between China & America. In recent years he has been celebrated in China with exhibitions devoted to his archives & conferences devoted to his poetry, as well as publication of his Complete (Chinese) Works in nine thick volumes. Paris: Dialogues + Meditations is the best presentation so far of his original poetry in English.