Hard Love Province : poems / Marilyn Chin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chin, Marilyn.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

78 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2014]

Summary:

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. --publisher marketing.

Contents:

Alba : Moon Camellia Lover

Formosan Elegy

Nocturnes

Summer Sleep

Twenty Five Haiku

One Child Has Brown Eyes

Study Hall, Deterritorialized

Costume Drama

Cougar Sinonymous

Sonnetnese

October Song

The Great Song

The Great Escape

From a Notebook of an Ex-Revolutionary

Black President

Every Woman Is Her Own Chimera

Brown Girl Manifesto (Too)

Kalifornia

Two Inch Fables

Naked I Come, Naked I Go

Horns: A Coda

Beautiful Boyfriend

Goodbye

Quiet the Dog, Tether the Pony.

Notes:

Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards - Poetry, Winner, 2015

ISBN:

9780393240962

0393240967

9780393351811

0393351815

OCLC:

876141092

Publisher Number:

40023903313