John Yau

John Yau is the author of thirteen books of poetry, including Radiant Silhouette: New & Selected Work 1974-1988 (1989) Borrowed Love Poems (2002) Ing Grish (2005) and, most recently, Bijoux in the Dark (2018). A fiction writer and art critic, he has also published monographs and books of criticism, including A Thing Among Things: The Art of Jasper Johns (2008). Catherine Murphy (2016) Thomas Nozkowski, (2017), Philip Taaffe (2018), and The Wild Children of William Blake (2017). In 2018, he received the Jackson Poetry Prize, which is awarded annually to an American poet of exceptional talent who deserves wider recognition. Yau is Professor of Critical Studies at Mason Gross School of the Arts (Rutgers University) and lives in New York. He is currently working on a book of essays, Foreign Sounds or Sounds Foreign and a new book of poems.