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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Be My Mirror

Be My Mirror

Wu, Yuting

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN13: 9798563842335
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 15 2020
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.19 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Yuting Wu's (Be My Mirror) unfolds one woman's experiences of lockdown with dreamy, surreal logic. Isolated in a quarantine facility during a global pandemic, Wu's speaker's confinement propels her into recollections and examinations of her personal agency in relation to a series of you's-anxiety, lovers, friends, and illness. Each day of quarantine unleashes image-driven free associations and floats the reader through dreams, highs, and memories as the speaker untangles herself from the constraints imposed on her: You forced me to be who I am, you glued mirrors to my hands. My eyes were pulled out and stuffed back in, only backwards. I closed off the outside world, I started seeing what I thought. And as Wu's speaker unravels her thoughts and examines each brilliant fiber, meditations on time, selfhood, relationships, and the body emerge: Gasping for air, was turned to is./ Enamored, / it is/ a feast/ on my body, / not on my mind. Wu's poems are; they exist in an ever-present now in which spirit and matter converge, in which I was trembling and/ you placed your cheeks against/ my cheeks/ and wood smelled like wood/ and red smelled like yellow/ and you died as you. This collection pulses with an urgency to capture moments of encounter between self and other before they slip away: I . . ./ try to weave the threads/ and write down the words/ before my dream of you/ is buried alongside you. And with each turn of the page, she mediates her own selfhood through ar

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