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Born in 1954 in Kunming, China, is a poet, author, and documentary film director. He is a major figure among 'The Third Generation Poets' that came after the 'Misty Poetry' movement of the early 1980s. Anthology of Works is a five-volume collection of his poems and essays 1975-2000. His work has been translated into numerous languages. Born in Shanghai and grew up on a small island in the East China Sea. She attended Beijing University and in 1985 left China to study in the U.S., earning her Ph.D. from New York University. Her books include two collections of poetry, The Magic Whip and Of Flesh & Spirit. Books include a collection of poems, You Never Know, and a memoir, Oklahoma Tough: My Father, King of the Tulsa Bootleggers. He is the editor of The Handbook of Poetic Forms and World Poets: An Encyclopedia for Students, as well as the translator of Blaise Cendrars' Complete Poems. Padgett has taught imaginative writing at Columbia University and Brooklyn College.