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Yin Xiaoyuan’s book, Cloud Seeding Agent, will be nominated for a Poetry Society of America Four Quartets Award.
From the Poetry Society of America’s Website:
The Four Quartets Prize is for a unified and complete sequence of poems published in America in a print or online journal, chapbook, or book.
The Four Quartets Prize is first and foremost a celebration of the multi-part poem, which includes entire volumes composed of a unified sequence as well as novels in verse and book-length verse narratives.
Gwendolyn Brooks's sequence A Street in Bronzeville , published as a book in 1945 as well as her The Anniad, published in book form in 1950, are also examples of eligible sequences. 77 Dream Poems (1964) and His Toy, His Dream, His Rest (1968) by John Berryman are other examples.
Three finalists will receive $1,000 each. The winner will receive an additional $20,000.
Cloud Seeding Agent ~ Table of Contents
Ode to Prime Numbers 1
32-bit Color Depth 4
To Kill a Process 6
Plain Text 8
13 Items in the Start Menu 10
A Day among Unacquainted Firewalls 14
Remote Assistance 16
Relative Coordinates of your Divine Self 19
Plane-changing Method 20
3 Views 22
Intersection Lines 26
Alternating Current, either Turbulent or Serene 28
Conservation of Momentum, A Break Even Tragicomedy 30
Centripetal Force 32
Wave-Particle Duality for Existence 34
Azure 17,000 K 36
The Mask and the Meniscus 37
The God Particle, Or a Teaspoon of Unknown Elements 38
Mass and Energy 39
Quantum Walk 40
Circatidal Rhythmus 42
Louis Pasteur and Dextrotartaric Acid, 1848 43
Blood Serum, -37°C 44
Generation-skipping Traits 45
Monascus Red, Rosa Laevigata Michaux Brown 46
Type AB 48
Schwann Cells 51
Brooding over the Dwindling Figure of a Kenai Peninsula Wolf 52
Family Feud or Coevolution 54
Bee Venom, the Thor among Medicines 56
Communication Behaviors 60
The Pineal Body—The 3rd Eye, Degenerated 62
Alleles: Divinity and the Id 64
The Origin of Species 65
A Neighborhood of M’s and N’s, in the Periodic Table 66
Conjugated Effect 68
The Group 0 Elements 70
Carbon-14, the Unyielding Drifters 72
The CO-quette in Blue 73
Two Days and Two Nights of Melezitose 75
Wolfram 76
Allotropes 78
A Post-producer and Hawthorn-addict 81
Coastal Erosion 82
Whirlpools Within Low Key Shots 84
Radial Photography, Human-centered 85
Stuck in Moments, Macro Photography 86
Bulb Photography (Seven Capricious Hours) 87
Rembrandt Lighting or Butterfly Lighting 88
Forced Perspective 90
Armchairs? Crinoline Dresses? This is Called Art Photography 92
A Surrealistic Page is There, Concealed in Everyone’s Mind 94
About the Author 98
List of Photographs 100
About the Artists 101
Praise for Cloud Seeding Agent 102
Page last updated: April 24, 2020
All pages copyright © 2020 by Pinyon Publishing