Description
A meditation on history and the imagination that bears witness to acts of genocide and to natural disasters in Ethiopia, Haiti, and Sri Lanka, Of Gods & Strangers interweaves lyrical, arresting accounts of our contemporary world with stories of "Empress Dowager" Tzu Hsi, last empress of China (1861-1908). An urgent reminder that poetry can offer us a social consciousness--"in my locked mouth an urge"--Of Gods & Strangers deftly traces the human dimensions of the "great modern machine," looking to recover the present and its people through the past's "faulty memory."
Author: Tina Chang
Publisher: Four Way Books
Published: 10/11/2011
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 6.07h x 8.97w x 0.30d
ISBN13: 9781935536178
ISBN10: 1935536176
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
Author: Tina Chang
Publisher: Four Way Books
Published: 10/11/2011
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 6.07h x 8.97w x 0.30d
ISBN13: 9781935536178
ISBN10: 1935536176
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | General
About the Author
Author of Half-Lit Houses, TINA CHANG teaches at Sarah Lawrence and serves as Brooklyn Poet Laureate.