Motherlands: Poems

Motherlands: PoemsWinner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, this engrossing debut interrogates history, identity, and the power of poetry to elucidate both. Motherlands opens with a child drawn early to poetry. "In summer I write. Two lines at a time, two vying souls running up the wall." The collection follows this speaker poet through a childhood in post Maoist China and an eventual move to the United States, laying bare cultural and linguistic tensions in both

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