Poetry. Tung-Hui Hu's MINE contains subject matter ranging from history and empire to mythic epilogue, allowing the poems to adopt a variety of narrative positions and explore a life outside the self. In the closing poem "The River," Hu writes: "When we travel by boat, I am the one who always grows older, sometimes a beard appears, or my skin cracks and turns volcanic. But you stay the same, everything except your name, after a certain point you got up and said You can start calling me this from now on. After that there was always some confusion." "This fresh and unexpected poet extends the lyric into the social space without losing any of the songs intensity or mystery, so that these casually elegant, affecting poems feel as interior as they are worldly"-Mark Doty.

Tung-Hui Hu lives in San Francisco, where he writes on film and new media. Previously, as a computer scientist, he worked on internet architecture. His first collection, The Book of Motion, was published by the University of Georgia Press in 2003.