Return

"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?"--

About the author

A former Margins Fellow at the Asian American Writers' Workshop and the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, Emily Lee Luan is the author of I Watch the Boughs, selected by Gabrielle Calvocoressi for a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. Her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry 2021, Best New Poets 2019, American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Rutgers University-Newark.

Summary

Through the recurrence of memory, myth, and grief, 回 / Return captures the elusory language of sorrow and solitude that binds Taiwanese diasporic experience.
Rooted in the classical tradition of the Chinese “reversible” poem, 回 / 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?

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Product details

• Authors: Emily Luan, Emily Lee Luan
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.04.2023
• EAN: 9781643621746
• ISBN: 978-1-64362-174-6
• No. of pages: 88
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Taiwan, POETRY / Women Authors, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Death, Grief, Loss, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Black & Asian Studies, POETRY / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies