Circle
Victoria Chang · 2005
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About the book
Taking its concept of concentricity from the eponymous Ralph Waldo Emerson essay, <em>Circle</em>, the first collection from Victoria Chang, adopts the shape as a trope for gender, family, and history. These lyrical, narrative, and hybrid poems trace the spiral trajectory of womanhood and growth and plot the progression of self as it ebbs away from and returns to its roots in an Asian American family and context. Locating human desire within the helixes of politics, society, and war, Chang skillfully draws arcs between T’ang Dynasty suicides and Alfred Hitchcock leading ladies, between the Hong Kong Flower Lounge and an all-you-can-eat Sunday brunch, the Rape of Nanking and civilian casualties in Iraq.
Book details
- Year
- 2005
- Language
- English
- Series
- Crab Orchard Series in Poetry
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 80
- ISBN
- 9780809326181
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