The Phoenix Gone, The Terrace Empty
New Edition
by Marilyn Chin
In
the fifteen years since Milkweed Editions’ original publication of
Marilyn Chin’s second book, she has been widely recognized as a
consummate poet of the hybrid experience, blending East and West,
popular and high culture, and personal and political. Praised for its
streetwise lyricism, this trailblazing volume captures a young
immigrant woman’s perspective as she encounters the nexus of tradition
and commercialism in modern, diverse, and urban California.
Featuring
a preface from the author addressing the effect of this publication and
the development in her work since, this new edition of The Phoenix Gone, The Terrace Empty reintroduces a modern classic to a new generation of readers.
Read an excerpt from The Phoenix Gone, The Terrace Empty
Marilyn Chin
Author's Bio:Marilyn Chin was born in Hong Kong and raised in Portland, Oregon. She is the author of Rhapsody in Plain Yellow (W.W. Norton & Co., 2002), The Phoenix Gone, The Terrace Empty (Milkweed Editions, 1994), and Dwarf Bamboo
(Greenfield Review Press, 1987). Chin has won numerous awards and
fellowships for her poetry, including a Stegner Fellowship, the PEN/Josephine Miles
Award, four Pushcart Prizes, the Paterson Prize, and a Fulbright
Scholarship to Taiwan. She has read and taught workshops all over the
world, translated poems by the modern Chinese poet Ai Qing, and
co-translated poems by the Japanese poet Gozo Yoshimasu. She co-directs
the MFA program at San Diego State University.
Quotes:"Marilyn Chin's poems excite and incite the imagination through their brillian cultural interfacings, their theatre of anger, 'fierce and tender,' compassion, high mockery of wit." —Adrienne Rich, author of Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth
"Full of mysterious images, gifts from another culture, details that enlarge our world." —Library Journal
"Chin's dazzling longing creates a past that becomes essential to our understanding of her elliptical and passionately insistent poetic statement." —Los Angeles Times
"These poems combine sumptuous imagery and startling, articulate intelligence to explore and record the horrifying as well as the satisfying, the seductive components of hyphenated (American) identity. Chin wrestles and she flies with both sides of her continuing history. . . . I cannot imagine a more compelling manuscript of poems centered on the difficult gift of racial and cultural 'double consciousness.'" —June Jordan, author of Directed by Desire
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Binding: Paperback
Availability In Stock: 360
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Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2009
Size: 6 x 9
Genre: Poetry
Pages: 112 pp
ISBN: 9781571314390
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