Winter phoenix : testimonies in verse / Sophia Terazawa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Terazawa, Sophia, author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Poetry.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

War crimes.

War crimes--Poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xvii, 143 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Dallas, Texas : Deep Vellum Publishing, [2021]

Summary:

"A profound debut collection blending testimony and tribunal, Winter Phoenix creates a courtroom for colonial and linguistic reckoning after the Vietnam war. A book of testimonies in verse, Winter Phoenix is a collection of poems written loosely after the form of an international war crimes tribunal. The poet, a daughter of a Vietnamese refugee, navigates the epigenetics of trauma passed down, and across, the archives of war, dislocation, and witness, as she repeatedly asks, "Why did you just stand there and say nothing?" Here, the space of accusation becomes both lyric and machine, an "investigation" which takes place in the margins of martial law, the source material being soldiers' testimonies given during three internationally publicized events, in this order-The Incident on Hill 192 (1966, Phù Mỹ District, Vietnam); The Winter Soldier Investigation (1971, Detroit, USA); and The Russell Tribunal (1966, Stockholm, Sweden; 1967, Roskilde, Denmark). Ultimately, however, Winter Phoenix is a document of resilience. Language decays. A ceremony eclipses its trial, and the radical possibilities of a single scream rises from annihilation"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Operation Phoenix

OPENING STATEMENT

17 November 1966

Witness Oath (1)

18 November 1966

Expatriated Fugue

Witness Oath (2)

19 November 1966

Witness Oath (3)

HILL 192

"We are ready to let the testimony say it all."

Testimony A ["Absolutely Virtuous"]

Cross-Examination (A.1)

Exhibit (A.1)

Cross-Examination (A3)

Exhibit (A3)

Testimony B ["Tending to Her Buffalo"]

Exhibit (B.1)

Cross-Examination (B.1)

Exhibit (B.2)

Testimony C ["Open Cavity"]

Exhibit C

Testimony D ["F-4 Phantom"]

Exhibit D

Cross-Examination D

Testimony E ["E-Tool"]

Cross-Examination E

Exhibit E

Testimony F ["Five Assumptions"]

Cross-Examination (F.1)

Exhibit F

Cross-Examination (F.2)

Cross-Examination (F.3)

Testimony G ["Grease Work"]

Exhibit G

Supplemental Diagrams

Exhibit (G.2)

Testimony H ["How Human of Her"]

H.A.L.O. Jump

Testimony I ["Ten or Fifteen Incidents"]

Short Recess

Testimony J ["Just Sort of Reached Out and Retreated"]

Testimony K ["Spread-Eagle"]

Cross-Examination (K.1)

Cross-Examination (K.2)

Exhibit (K.1)

Exhibit (K.2)

Testimony L ["Good Laugh From That

-"]

ALLEGATIONS

Margins, Affirmation

Mise-en-Scene

Amulets of M

Testimony N ["Nascent nude reclining under moonlight ..."]

Exhibit (NA)

Amulets of N

N, or Variations of Haibun

Exhibit (N.2)

Testimony O ["Some Sort of an Orifice"]

Ottava Rima Ending Without O

Amulets of O

O-Graft

Exhibit O

Testimony of the Pleiades

Cluster P, or Seven Amulets

Testimony Q ["[Redacted] as the Quality"]

Testimony R ["Rounded Up"]

Redactions from an International War Crimes Tribunal

BYLAWS

Bylaw [S.1] String-and-Wire Abecedarian

For Official Use Only

Bylaw [S.2] Notes for Immediate Dispatch

Bylaw [S.3] Object Lesson

Tango ["Yes, I Saw It Happen Thirty, Forty Times"]

Aubade before Tribunal

MORNING CEREMONY

ERDL Pattern, Ceremony U

Dictums OG-107, Ceremony V

Ceremony W ["She Could Have Drowned, She Could Have Swam Under Water, She Could Have Gone Anywhere."]

Ceremony X, or Double-Headed Stones

Ceremony Y, Universal Grid

Final Report.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

9781646051427

1646051424

OCLC:

1240575916

Publisher Number:

99989367113