A Thousand Crimson Blooms |
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| Author:
| Chong, Eileen |
| Series title: | UQP Poetry Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7022-6319-4 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2021 |
| Publisher: | University of Queensland Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $19.99 |
Book Description:
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Eileen Chong's luminous poetry examines the histories - personal, familial and cultural - that form our identities and obsessions. A Thousand Crimson Blooms is a deepening of her commitment to a poetics of sensuous simplicity and complex emotions, even as she confronts the challenges of infertility or fraught mother-daughter relations. Entwined throughout are questions of migration and belonging.
Viewed as a whole, this collection is a field of flowers, aflame with light.
Eileen Chong's luminous poetry examines the histories - personal, familial and cultural - that form our identities and obsessions. A Thousand Crimson Blooms is a deepening of her commitment to a poetics of sensuous simplicity and complex emotions, even as she confronts the challenges of infertility or fraught mother-daughter relations. Entwined throughout are questions of migration and belonging.
Viewed as a whole, this collection is a field of flowers, aflame with light.