Rooted in the classical tradition of the Chinese "reversible" poem, ? / Return is engaged in the act of looking back-toward an imagined homeland and a childhood of suburban longing, through migratory passages, departures, and etymologies, and into the various holes and voids that appear in the telling and retelling of history. The poems ask: What is feeling? What is melancholy? Can language translate either?
Rezensionen / Stimmen
Luan's meditative debut explores the Taiwanese diasporic experience through poems rich with vivid imagery, imagination, and candor that draw from the classical tradition of the Chinese "reversible" poem.
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Verlagsort
Maße
Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 153 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-0687515-3-0 (9781068751530)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Emily Lee Luan is the author of I Watch the Boughs (2021) selected by Gabrielle Calvocoressi for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. A 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow and the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry 2021, American Poetry Review, Lithub, and elsewhere. She teaches at Adelphi University and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
