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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Luan, Emily Lee
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| Publisher: |
Nightboat Books
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| Date: |
04/23/2023
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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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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