Welcome to my website. I am a writer, translator, and scholar. Browse around to find out more about the different types of work I do–writing, translation, and historical and literary research. Check out some samples of my work below and on the blog posts page, and visit my other blog, tenthousandli.me, to read more of my writing on travel, art, and life. If you have any questions, please contact me at s.boyanton@yahoo.com.
“America Used to be America (for Me)”: A Poem
I suppose this is my personal homage to Langston Hughes’s great poem, “Let America be America Again,” about which I’ve written on my other blog. Perhaps it’s also my personal update to that poem, my own “creative misprision”–to borrow Harold Bloom’s term–through which I’m trying to say where I think we are and where I … More “America Used to be America (for Me)”: A Poem