Riding Pisces brings together a number of hard-to-find and uncollected texts from almost the full extent of Yang Lian's career: from Masks and Crocodiles (Sydney, 1990-although the translations here are new), from the out-of-print collection Non-Person Singular (London, 1994), from Notes of a Blissful Ghost, (Hong Kong, 2002), from the Sailor's Home six-handed anthology (Shearsman Books, 2005), and from the as-yet-uncollected Dark Blue Verses.