The Past Xu Wendy
The Past Xu Wendy Elegiac and searching, poems written in the long shadow of immigrationThe poems in Wendy Xu's third collection, The Past, fantasize uneasily about becoming a palatable lyric record…
Specifikacia The Past Xu Wendy
The Past Xu Wendy
Elegiac and searching, poems written in the long shadow of immigrationThe poems in Wendy Xu's third collection, The Past, fantasize uneasily about becoming a palatable lyric record of their namesake, while ultimately working to disrupt this Westernized desire. The Past probes the multi-generational binds of family, displacement, and immigration as an ongoing psychic experience without end. Born in Shandong, China, in 1987, Wendy Xu immigrated to the United States in 1989, three days ahead of the events of Tian'anmen Square.
Moving spontaneously between lyric, fragment, prose, and subversions in "traditional" Chinese forms, the book culminates in a centerpiece series of "Tian'anmen Square sonnets" (and their subsequent erasures), to conjure up the irrepressible past, and ultimately imagine a new kind of poem: at once code and confession.
Tidesong Xu Wendy
Tidesong Xu Wendy
Discovering the Past
Discovering the Past
Silencing the Past
Tasting the Past
Escape The Past
Discovering the Past
Recreating the Past
Unveiling the Past
The Deadly Past
Staging the Past