Pebble Swing
Pebble Swing A much-anticipated debut collection from one of Canada's most promising emerging poetsPebble Swing earns its title from the image of stones skipping their way across a body of water, or,…
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Pebble Swing
A much-anticipated debut collection from one of Canada's most promising emerging poetsPebble Swing earns its title from the image of stones skipping their way across a body of water, or, in the author's case, syllables and traces of her mother tongue bouncing back at her from the water's reflective surface. It is the author's attempt to piece together the resonant aftermath of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, which stole the life of her paternal grandmother. This collection is about language and family histories.
As an immigrant whose grasp of Mandarin is fading, Wang explores absences in her caesuras and fragmentation--that which is unspoken, but endures.The poems in this collection also trace the experiences of a young poet who left home at seventeen to pursue writing; the result is a series of city poetry infused with memory, the small joys of