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9780393240962 English 0393240967 "Chin's creativity as a poet is undeniable, as she physically shapes poems into images and breaks traditional forms" (International Examiner). Rich with emotional nuance and electric with high-flying verbal experimentation, the poems in Hard Love Province include love songs and elegies. Polyphonic and hard-hitting, they are at once elegant and raw, mournful and wry. From "Nocturnes" Beautiful moon the murderer begins to sing The thief takes off his mask to smell the heliotrope A dirty girl's face against a clear night pane dreams of a strawberry pie at Marie Callendar's A junkie steals asters from a rich man's grave And spreads them on the modest mound of his mother, From a poet of dazzling longing (Los Angeles Times), a stunning new collection of haunting elegies and playful quatrains., Marilyn Chin is a poet acclaimed by Adrienne Rich for her "powerful, uncompromised, and unerring" poems. Dancing brilliantly between Eastern and Western forms, fusing ancient Chinese history and contemporary American popular culture, she is one of the most celebrated Asian-American poets writing today. Chin's fourth volume of poems, Hard Love Province, is composed of erotic elegies in which the speaker grieves for the loss of her beloved. In "Void" she writes with the imagistic, distilled quietude of a solitary mourner: "It s not that you are rare / Nor are you extraordinary // O lone wren sobbing on the bodhi tree / You are simple and sincere." In "Formosan Elegy," by contrast, she is that mourner, beyond simplicity or quietude, crying out for a lover: "I sing for you but my tears have dried in my gullet / Walk the old dog give the budgies a cool bath / Cut a tender melon let it bleed into memory." Here, too, are poems inspired by Chin s poetic forbearers and mentors Dickinson, Plath, Ai, Gwendolyn Brooks, Tu Fu, Adrienne Rich, and others honoring their work and descrying the global injustice they addressed. "Whose life is it anyway?" she asks in a poem for Rich, "She born of chrysalis and shit / Or she born of woman and pain?" Emotionally nuanced and electric with high-flying verbal experimentation, image after image, line by line, Chin's spectacular reinventions, her quatrains, sonnets, allegories, and elegies, are unforgettable."
9780393240962 English 0393240967 "Chin's creativity as a poet is undeniable, as she physically shapes poems into images and breaks traditional forms" (International Examiner). Rich with emotional nuance and electric with high-flying verbal experimentation, the poems in Hard Love Province include love songs and elegies. Polyphonic and hard-hitting, they are at once elegant and raw, mournful and wry. From "Nocturnes" Beautiful moon the murderer begins to sing The thief takes off his mask to smell the heliotrope A dirty girl's face against a clear night pane dreams of a strawberry pie at Marie Callendar's A junkie steals asters from a rich man's grave And spreads them on the modest mound of his mother, From a poet of dazzling longing (Los Angeles Times), a stunning new collection of haunting elegies and playful quatrains., Marilyn Chin is a poet acclaimed by Adrienne Rich for her "powerful, uncompromised, and unerring" poems. Dancing brilliantly between Eastern and Western forms, fusing ancient Chinese history and contemporary American popular culture, she is one of the most celebrated Asian-American poets writing today. Chin's fourth volume of poems, Hard Love Province, is composed of erotic elegies in which the speaker grieves for the loss of her beloved. In "Void" she writes with the imagistic, distilled quietude of a solitary mourner: "It s not that you are rare / Nor are you extraordinary // O lone wren sobbing on the bodhi tree / You are simple and sincere." In "Formosan Elegy," by contrast, she is that mourner, beyond simplicity or quietude, crying out for a lover: "I sing for you but my tears have dried in my gullet / Walk the old dog give the budgies a cool bath / Cut a tender melon let it bleed into memory." Here, too, are poems inspired by Chin s poetic forbearers and mentors Dickinson, Plath, Ai, Gwendolyn Brooks, Tu Fu, Adrienne Rich, and others honoring their work and descrying the global injustice they addressed. "Whose life is it anyway?" she asks in a poem for Rich, "She born of chrysalis and shit / Or she born of woman and pain?" Emotionally nuanced and electric with high-flying verbal experimentation, image after image, line by line, Chin's spectacular reinventions, her quatrains, sonnets, allegories, and elegies, are unforgettable."