Dream of the divided field : poems / by Yanyi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yanyi (Poet), author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

x, 82 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : One World, [2022]

Summary:

"Question: How do we carry our homes with us? Answer: In memory Informed by Yanyi's experiences of immigration, violent heartbreak, and a bodily transition, Dream of the Divided Field explores the contradictions that accompany shifts from one state of being to another, these are poems of love and isolation, lust and alienation, tenderness and violence, suffering and wonder. In his latest book, Yanyi conjures the beloved whom we believe we know, yet who is never who we imagine, and who threatens to erase us even as we stand before them. We exit our old selves like homes, these poems suggest. We look through the windows and recognize some former aspect of our life that both is ours, and isn't. We long for what we had even as we recognize that we can no longer live there. In tender, serene, and ethereal poems, Dream of the Divided Field examines a body breaking down, and a body that rebuilds in limitless and boundary-shifting ways."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. In the Museum

Aubade (The Lake)

Coming Over

Taking Care

Leaving the House

Transitioned

Landscape with a Hundred Turns

Aubade (In Names)

II. Dream in Which I Try to Disappear in Front of My Aunt, or, Interrogation

Getting Around (the Dream)

Family Tree

Listening to Teresa Teng

Tenants

Flight

Blackout

III. Antiaubade

Reconstruction

Catullus 85

The Friend

The Cliff

Eurydice at the Mouth

Aubade (Two of Cups)

Home for the Holidays

Detail

Spring of Cups

Perennation

IV. Affirmation

Balenciaga

Faith

Paradise, Lost

Migrants

Things We Didn't Know

Making Double

V. Ambulance! Ambulance!

Snns

Lengthening, Rites

Dream of the Divided Field

The End of Another Year

Deconstruction

I Had a Vision of a Hill

Garden Sketch

Aubade

Translation

Once.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Yanyi (Poet) Dream of the divided field.

ISBN:

9780593230992

059323099X

OCLC:

1246677842