Rhapsody in Plain Yellow: Poems
Rhapsody in Plain Yellow: Poems

Author: Marilyn Chin

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2003-07-17

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 0393634868

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A fusion of east and west, high culture, popular culture, and ancient Chinese history mark this distinguished collection. Marilyn Chin, with her multilayered, multidimensional, intercultural singing, elegizes the loss of her mother and maternal grandmother and tries to unravel the complexities of her family's past. She tells of the trials of immigration, of exile, of thwarted interracial love, and of social injustice. Some poems recall the Confucian "Book of Songs," while others echo the African American blues tradition and Western railroad ballads. The title poem references the Han Dynasty rhapsody but is also a wild, associative tour de force. Political allegories sing out with personal revelations. Personal revelations open up to a universal cry for compassion and healing. These songs emerge as a powerful and elegant collection: sophisticated yet moving, hard-hitting yet refined.

Rhapsody in Plain Yellow
Rhapsody in Plain Yellow

Author: Marilyn Chin

Publisher: W W Norton & Company Incorporated

Published: 2003-06-24

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9780393324532

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A fusion of east and west, high culture, popular culture, and ancient Chinese history mark this distinguished collection.

A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems
A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems

Author: Marilyn Chin

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2018-10-16

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0393652181

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“Dark, playful, incisive and heartbreaking.” —San Diego Union-Tribune Spanning thirty years of dazzling work—from luminous early love lyrics to often-anthologized Asian American identity anthems, from political and subversive hybrid forms to feminist manifestos—A Portrait of the Self as Nation is a selection from one of America’s most original and vital voices. Marilyn Chin’s passionate, polyphonic poetry is deeply engaged with the complexities of cultural assimilation, feminism, and the Asian American experience; she spins precise, beautiful metaphors as she illuminates hard-hitting truths.

The Phoenix Gone, the Terrace Empty
The Phoenix Gone, the Terrace Empty

Author: Marilyn Chin

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781571314390

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In the 15 years since this book came out, Marilyn Chin has been widely recognized as a consummate poet of the hybrid experience, blending East and West, popular and high culture, personal and political. Praised for its streetwise lyricism, this groundbreaking volume captures a young immigrant woman’s perspective as she encounters the nexus of tradition and commercialism in modern, diverse, and urban California. With this new edition, a modern classic is reintroduced to a new generation of readers.

Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen: A Novel
Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen: A Novel

Author: Marilyn Chin

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2009-07-20

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0393077276

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An uproarious debut that lays bare the complicated generational relationships of Chinese American women. Raucous twin sisters Moonie and Mei Ling Wong are known as the “double happiness” Chinese food delivery girls. Each day they load up a “crappy donkey-van” and deliver Americanized (“bad”) Chinese food to homes throughout their southern California neighborhood. United in their desire to blossom into somebodies, the Wong girls fearlessly assert their intellect and sexuality, even as they come of age under the care of their dominating, cleaver-wielding grandmother from Hong Kong. They transform themselves from food delivery girls into accomplished women, but along the way they wrestle with the influence and continuity of their Chinese heritage. Marilyn Chin’s prose waxes and wanes between satire and metaphorical lyric, referencing classical Chinese tales and ghost stories that are at turns sensual, lurid, hilarious, shocking, and surreal.

Asian American Poetry
Asian American Poetry

Author: Victoria Chang

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780252071744

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A modern poetry anthology that includes the work of a second generation of Asian American poets who are taking the best of the prior generation, but also breaking conventional patterns.

The Incredible Sestina Anthology
The Incredible Sestina Anthology

Author: Daniel Nester

Publisher: SCB Distributors

Published: 2014-08-22

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1938912373

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More than 800 years after its invention in medieval France, the sestina survives and thrives in English. A fixed 39-line poetic form with of six stanzas of six lines each, followed by a three- line stanza known as an envoi, tornada, or tercet, the sestina is the one form of poetry that poets from all camps agree can exist in a free verse world. Formalists and avant-gardes love sestinas for their ornate, maddeningly complicated rules of word repetition. For The Incredible Sestinas Anthology, editor Daniel Nester has gathered more than 100 writers—from John Ashbery to David Lehman to Matt Madden and Patricia Smith—to show the sestina in its many incarnations: prose and comic sestinas, collaborative and double sestinas, from masters of the form to brilliant one-off attempts, all to show its evolution and the possibilities of this dynamic form.

Dwarf Bamboo
Dwarf Bamboo

Author: Marilyn Chin

Publisher:

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13:

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"Marilyn Chin's poems depict the Asian American struggle with assimilation and describe the resulting alienation or acceptance with astonishing honesty and clarity"--Back cover.

Poems
Poems

Author: Thomas Stearns Eliot

Publisher:

Published: 1920

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13:

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A collection of poems, some of which had first appeared in Poetry, Blas, Others, The Little Review, and Arts and Letters.

Club Icarus
Club Icarus

Author: Matt W. Miller

Publisher: University of North Texas Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 1574415042

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Winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, 2012 With muscular language and visceral imagery, Club Icarus will appeal to sons and fathers, to those tired of poetry that makes no sense, to those who think lyric poetry is dead, to those who think the narrative poem is stale, and to those who appreciate the vernacular as the language of living and the act of living as something worth putting into language.