Poetry. Translated into the Chinese by Mengying Han and Aaron Crippen. Bilingual edition. "The poems in Jennifer Tseng's RED FLOWER, WHITE FLOWER have a highly intuitive use of music, serious humor, mystery, grief, and along with grief, unguarded understanding and puzzlement, side by side. It is as if this poetry has been waiting in a room somewhere, or a river, or a forest, and now Jennifer Tseng has led us into it—I sometimes even felt some sense of her own surprise—all...
More DescriptionPoetry. Translated into the Chinese by Mengying Han and Aaron Crippen. Bilingual edition. "The poems in Jennifer Tseng's RED FLOWER, WHITE FLOWER have a highly intuitive use of music, serious humor, mystery, grief, and along with grief, unguarded understanding and puzzlement, side by side. It is as if this poetry has been waiting in a room somewhere, or a river, or a forest, and now Jennifer Tseng has led us into it—I sometimes even felt some sense of her own surprise—all carried over with a sort of underwater intelligence, light gravity."—Jean Valentine
"It is cause for celebration to find a writer who does not shy away from feelings as particular as ardor, ache, solace—feelings rising from 'strange invitations' in real-life settings or in fables, Chinese and archetypal. Open the covers and hear Jennifer Tseng's bright voice in RED FLOWER, WHITE FLOWER."—Kimiko Hahn