In addition to your own writing, you’ve also extensively translated the work of contemporary and classical poets from China and Japan. If you had to name one book that made you who you are today, what would it be? What’s the most interesting thing you’ve learned from a book recently? Charles C. Mann’s 2005 book “1491” argues that the New World had a larger population than all of Europe as of that year. If you could require the president to read one book, what would it be?

Source: New York Times April 25, 2019 09:00 UTC