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Circle
Southern Illinois University Press, 2005 eISBN: 978-0-8093-8833-2 | Paper: 978-0-8093-2618-1 Library of Congress Classification PS3603.H3575C57 2005 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.6
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Taking its concept of concentricity from the eponymous Ralph Waldo Emerson essay, Circle, the first collection from Victoria Chang, adopts the shape as a trope for gender, family, and history. These lyrical, narrative, and hybrid poems trace the spiral trajectory of womanhood and growth and plot the progression of self as it ebbs away from and returns to its roots in an Asian American family and context. Locating human desire within the helixes of politics, society, and war, Chang skillfully draws arcs between T’ang Dynasty suicides and Alfred Hitchcock leading ladies, between the Hong Kong Flower Lounge and an all-you-can-eat Sunday brunch, the Rape of Nanking and civilian casualties in Iraq. See other books on: American | Chang, Victoria | Circle | Poetry See other titles from Southern Illinois University Press |
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Circle
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
Southern Illinois University Press, 2005
eISBN: 978-0-8093-8833-2
Paper: 978-0-8093-2618-1
eISBN: 978-0-8093-8833-2
Paper: 978-0-8093-2618-1
Taking its concept of concentricity from the eponymous Ralph Waldo Emerson essay, Circle, the first collection from Victoria Chang, adopts the shape as a trope for gender, family, and history. These lyrical, narrative, and hybrid poems trace the spiral trajectory of womanhood and growth and plot the progression of self as it ebbs away from and returns to its roots in an Asian American family and context. Locating human desire within the helixes of politics, society, and war, Chang skillfully draws arcs between T’ang Dynasty suicides and Alfred Hitchcock leading ladies, between the Hong Kong Flower Lounge and an all-you-can-eat Sunday brunch, the Rape of Nanking and civilian casualties in Iraq.
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
