Poetry. Asian American Studies. Berkshire Prize for First or Second Book, chosen by D. A. Powell. Entranced by time and location and the body's longings, this is a book of self-translation. Each poem has gone through a transmigration process, as the poet negotiates between her native Chinese and her adopted English, attempting to condense, distill, and expand seeing and understanding.
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Poetry. Asian American Studies. Berkshire Prize for First or Second Book, chosen by D. A. Powell. Entranced by time and location and the body's longings, this is a book of self-translation. Each poem has gone through a transmigration process, as the poet negotiates between her native Chinese and her adopted English, attempting to condense, distill, and expand seeing and understanding.
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North Adams. 2015. March 2015. Tupelo Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781936797530. 69 pages. paperback. keywords: Poetry America Literature Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Berkshire Prize for First or Second Book, chosen by D. A. Powell. Entranced by time and location and the body's longings, this is a book of self-translation. Each poem has gone through a transmigration process, as the poet negotiates between her native Chinese and her adopted English, attempting to condense, distill, and expand seeing and understanding. Ye Chun's poetry is remarkably gorgeous, courageous, astute, and inspiring. A ‘space dark enough for a peach tree to bloom. ' These poems are solidly anchored in both the world and the imagination-in fact, they use one in order to make the other possible. -D. A. Powell. The intricate lyrics of. Lantern Puzzle shimmer liminally, like the. windows, spiders, moons, lanterns, and reflected faces that hover between heaven and earth throughout the collection. These talismanic portals suggest that the realms of the soma and geography are blurred and permeable, . allowing the. the lost, longed for, and the realized to exist at once. -Lisa Russ Spaar. inventory #41554.