Lannan Foundation

Marilyn Chin, Poet - Marfa, Winter 2003

Marilyn Chin is the author of The Phoenix Gone, The Terrace Empty, winner of the PEN Josephine Miles Award; Dwarf Bamboo; and, most recently, Rhapsody in Plain Yellow. She is currently on the faculty of the M.F.A. program at San Diego State University.

“The breathtaking, expansive desert landscape cleared my brain of excess baggage; and the gift of time gave me the freedom to not only write but to reassess my life.  The night sky of Marfa is so huge that one can’t help but to transgress the borders of one’s own limited imagination.  I believe that I wrote some of my best work here.”