Taking its concept of concentricity from the eponymous Ralph Waldo Emerson essay, Circle, 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.
| ISBN: | 9780809326181 |
| Publication date: | 3rd March 2005 |
| Author: | Victoria Chang |
| Publisher: | Southern Illinois University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 63 pages |
| Series: | Crab Orchard Series in Poetry |
| Genres: |
Poetry by individual poets |
Taking its concept of concentricity from the eponymous Ralph Waldo Emerson essay, Circle, 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.
Circle features in the following genres: Poetry by individual poets
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Circle was written by Victoria Chang and published by Southern Illinois University Press
Circle has 63 pages
Yes it is part of Crab Orchard Series in Poetry series
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