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ISBN13: 9781771315722
Publisher: Brick Books
Published: Apr 15 2022
Pages: 83
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
WINNER OF THE 2023 J.M. ABRAHAM ATLANTIC POETRY AWARD
Nanci Lee's debut explores 4th Century Su Hui's palindrome of longing. Hsin arises from an ancient Chinese ethical philosophy, less a set of moral standards than an appeal to tune.
Heart-mind and nothingness are fair English translations of Hsin, but their tidiness risks losing some of the sharper, wider sides of absence and appetite. As a historical process, according to Hang Thaddeus T'ui-Chieh, Hsin frustrates, the psychological fragmentation and compartmentalization of the West.
Born to a Syrian father and a Chinese mother, who gave her up for adoption, Lee explores her origins in a compendium of poem fragments where form embraces the process of its unfolding. These are Koan-like poems, resonant with tones at turns ageless and contemporary; Hsin holds silence in ways that both claim and keep at bay.
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