IRON MOON: AN ANTHOLOGY OF CHINESE WORKER POETRY

Eleanor Goodman is the award-winning translator of Something Crosses My Mind: Selected Poems by Wang Xiaoni, published in 2014. It won the Lucien Stryk Translation Prize and was shortlisted for the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize. Nine Dragon Island, is her first poetry collection.
We anticipate this volume will have legs well beyond our traditional poetry and literature in translation markets. If the documentary movie that accompanies the book gets decent distribution it will raise the profile of the issue of Chinese migrant factory labor in ways not previously seen here in the US.
The outside PR firm the film company will work with will also market the book giving us a much larger marketing profile than we are normally able to do.
These poems present powerful descriptions of the rarely seen Chinese worker world that produces products that go on our shelves