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Product details
- ISBN 9781632431608
- Weight: 286g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 19 Nov 2024
- Publisher: Omnidawn Publishing
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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A collection of dreamlike poetry, accompanied by ink drawings, reflecting on the experiences of living in an aging body.
With her latest collection, Maw Shein Win deftly braids together the pleasures, pains, and anxieties of living in an aging body, revealing how a mind can log thoughts and observations. Win employs new poetic forms to invite her readers into realms that are both deeply personal and universal, rendered with dreamlike imagery and surprising humor. Reflecting on our strange times and the atmospheric undercurrents of chaos and disintegration, Percussing the Thinking Jar is a hypnotic book and invites the reader into conversation with their own vulnerability and resilience. Throughout the book, sumi ink drawings by artist Mark Dutcher echo the rhythms of Win’s poetry.
With her latest collection, Maw Shein Win deftly braids together the pleasures, pains, and anxieties of living in an aging body, revealing how a mind can log thoughts and observations. Win employs new poetic forms to invite her readers into realms that are both deeply personal and universal, rendered with dreamlike imagery and surprising humor. Reflecting on our strange times and the atmospheric undercurrents of chaos and disintegration, Percussing the Thinking Jar is a hypnotic book and invites the reader into conversation with their own vulnerability and resilience. Throughout the book, sumi ink drawings by artist Mark Dutcher echo the rhythms of Win’s poetry.
Maw Shein Win is the author of the chapbooks Ruins of a glittering palace and Score and Bone and of poetry collections including Invisible Gifts and Storage Unit for the Spirit House, the latter also published by Omnidawn and nominated for the Northern California Book Award in Poetry, longlisted for the PEN America Open Book Award, and shortlisted for CALIBA’s Golden Poppy Award for Poetry. She teaches at the University of San Francisco, was selected as a 2023 YBCA 100 Honoree, and is the inaugural poet laureate of El Cerrito, CA.
