The Past by Wendy Xu (English) Paperback Book

Description: The Past by Wendy Xu Elegiac and searching, poems written in the long shadow of immigration. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Elegiac and searching, poems written in the long shadow of immigrationThe poems in Wendy Xus third collection, The Past, fantasize uneasily about becoming a palatable lyric record of their namesake, while ultimately working to disrupt this Westernized desire. Born in Shandong, China, in 1987, Wendy Xu immigrated to the United States in 1989, three days ahead of the events of Tiananmen Square. The Past probes the multi-generational binds of family, displacement, and immigration as an ongoing psychic experience without end. Moving spontaneously between lyric, fragment, prose, and subversions in "traditional" Chinese forms, the book culminates in a centerpiece series of "Tiananmen Square sonnets" (and their subsequent erasures), to conjure up the irrepressible past, and ultimately imagine a new kind of poem: at once code and confession."Tiananmen Sonnet" (dead air in air ... )Dead air in airThe anniversary of languageholds you back againstbucolic dreaming, down streamfrom here is runninga miraculous color, elegybursts like a ribbon in airThinking again of the Square todayBold sky, passing episodes of cloudVegetation mutters in the Far WestA column of ghostsgoing violet over timeFamiliar song looping overheadLines pressed in air Author Biography WENDY XU (Brooklyn, NY) is the author of Phrasis, named one of the 10 Best Poetry Books of 2017 by the New York Times Book Review. She teaches writing at the New School, and serves as Poetry Editor for the arts magazine Hyperallergic. Review "Xus lyricism and near-painterly control of the line are breathtaking. The Past shows us how the natural world tells of a shared history and language long after the traumas of revolution and immigration. These poems push outward at all of the seams."--Wendy S. Walters, author of Multiply/Divide: On the American Real and Surreal, Wendy S. Walters, author of Multiply/Divide: On the American Real and Surreal Review Quote "Xus lyricism and near-painterly control of the line are breathtaking. The Past shows us how the natural world tells of a shared history and language long after the traumas of revolution and immigration. These poems push outward at all of the seams."--Wendy S. Walters, author of Multiply/Divide: On the American Real and Surreal Details ISBN0819580465 Author Wendy Xu Pages 104 Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 0819580465 ISBN-13 9780819580467 Format Paperback Series Wesleyan Poetry Series Imprint Wesleyan University Press Place of Publication Hanover Country of Publication United States Publisher Wesleyan University Press AU Release Date 2021-12-28 NZ Release Date 2021-12-28 US Release Date 2021-12-28 Publication Date 2021-12-28 UK Release Date 2021-12-28 DEWEY 811.6 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:133092929;

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