Nick Admussen

Nick Admussen is the author of three poetry chapbooks. His poetry has appeared in the Boston Review, Fence, and the Kenyon Review Online, and he has translated work by Liu Xiaobo and many others. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University.

The Language of Violence

The effects of revolutionary violence on Chinese poetry.

  • Nick Admussen

Translation: The Mangled Braid

Translation is always other than its original: even if it is unimpeachably faithful, a translated story will feel and act differently in a new language.

  • Nick Admussen

Disassembling a Handgun

The technical challenge of translation.

  • Nick Admussen

Nameless Lake: Occupation and the Ear

The violence of the struggle over this place raises many questions that center around the power to speak.

  • Nick Admussen

Awkward, Diligent: Liu Xiaobo’s Love Poetry

The creative output of the Nobel Peace Prize winner.

  • Nick Admussen

Microreview: Monica Youn, Ignatz

Humor and love act like cat and mouse in this collection.

  • Nick Admussen

Review: Star in the Eye

By James Shea.

  • Nick Admussen

Missionary

  • Nick Admussen

Helpmate

  • Nick Admussen
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