Return

Through the recurrence of memory, myth, and grief, 回 / Return captures the elusory language of sorrow and solitude that binds Taiwanese diasporic experience.

Rooted in the classical tradition of the Chinese "reversible" poem, 回 / Return is engaged in the act of looking back--toward an imagined homeland and a childhood of suburban longing, through migratory passages, departures, and etymologies, and into the various holes and voids that appear in the telling and retelling of history. The poems ask: What is feeling? What is melancholy? Can language translate either?

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Published: 04/23/2023
ISBN: 9781643621746
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d