Serialization targeting The Nation, Granta, Paris Review, Poetry, AGNI, New England Review, Cincinnati Review, Poetry Daily, Literary Hub, The Margins Media campaign targeting poetry review outlets: New York Times, Harriet Books, NPR, LARB, Action Books Targeted outreach to publications spotlighting translated literature: World Literature Today, Asymptote, Words Without Borders Outreach and promotion to Asian American Writers’ Workshop Outreach to departments of East Asian studies, Chinese language and literature Promotion on the publisher’s website (deepvellum.org), Twitter feed (@deepvellum), and Facebook page (/deepvellum); publisher’s e-newsletter to booksellers, reviewers, librarians

Liu Zongyuan's remarkable poetry reflects the complex experience of political exile and observes the natural world of his new home in South China with a caring eye.

The Poetic Garden of Liu Zongyuan presents poems by the Tang Dynasty cofounder of the Classical Prose Movement written on the Chinese empire’s southern margins. In these remarkable pieces, Liu intertwines South China’s landscapes and plants—such as scarlet canna, banyan, and white myoga ginger—with reflections on honor, duty, banishment, and belonging in ways unique in the history of Chinese poetry. The two translators, Nathaniel Dolton-Thornton and Yu Yuanyuan, one American and one Chinese, preserve and showcase the singular beauty of Liu's poetic garden for the English-speaking world.