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Motherlands: Poems

Motherlands: Poems

Pan, Weijia

Hardcover

Series: Max Ritvo Poetry Prize

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $22.00

ISBN10: 1639551131
ISBN13: 9781639551132
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: Sep 17 2024
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.60
Language: English

Winner of the Levis Reading Prize

Chosen by Louise Glück for the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, this engrossing debut interrogates history, identity, and the power of poetry to elucidate both.

Motherlands opens with a child drawn early to poetry. In summer I write. Two lines at a time, two vying souls / running up the wall. The collection follows this speaker-poet through a childhood in post-Maoist China and an eventual move to the United States, laying bare cultural and linguistic tensions in both historical and modern settings. He cites Chinese laborers toiling in American factories--an echo of the brutalities endured by those who constructed the Transatlantic Railroad--and speaks to anxieties around belonging, assimilation, and identity. If I forget one character a day, he writes. I will have forgotten Chinese / by the end of 2042.

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