A01=Marilyn Chin
Author_Marilyn Chin
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Product details
- ISBN 9780393324532
- Weight: 146g
- Dimensions: 140 x 208mm
- Publication Date: 05 Aug 2003
- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Marilyn Chin, with her multilayered, multidimensional, intercultural singing, elegizes the loss of her mother and maternal grandmother and tries to unravel the complexities of her family's past. She tells of the trials of immigration, of exile, of thwarted interracial love, and of social injustice. Some poems recall the Confucian "Book of Songs," while others echo the African American blues tradition and Western railroad ballads. The title poem references the Han Dynasty rhapsody but is also a wild, associative tour de force. Political allegories sing out with personal revelations. Personal revelations open up to a universal cry for compassion and healing. These songs emerge as a powerful and elegant collection: sophisticated yet moving, hard-hitting yet refined.
Marilyn Chin has authored six poetry collections and a novel. She appears in The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Poetry and The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women, among others. A Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize recipient, she lives in San Diego, California.
