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Author/Contributor(s):	Stark, Jessica Q
Publisher:	BOA Editions
Date:	04/18/2023
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"In these hybrid poems, Jessica Q. Stark explores her mother's fraught immigration to the United States from Vietnam at the end of the war through the lens of the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale. Told through personal, national, and cultural histories, [this work] is a feminist indictment of the violence used to define and control women's bodies. Interspersed throughout ... are a series of collaged photographs featuring Stark's mother's black-and-white photography from Vietnam, ... layered over various natural landscapes: lush tropical plants, dense forests, pockets of wildflowers"--