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ISBN10: 1939568080
ISBN13: 9781939568083
Publisher: Black Ocean
Published: Dec 15 2014
Pages: 93
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.80 Depth: 7.40
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781939568083
Publisher: Black Ocean
Published: Dec 15 2014
Pages: 93
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.80 Depth: 7.40
Language: English
By day, Feng Sun Chen works at a nursing home in Minneapolis, by night she creates biting poetry like that found in her much-talked about first book, Butcher's Tree. In her second collection, The 8th House, Chen peels away the exterior of life's pink underbelly page by page, smelling the meaning in a mother's stew, carving light from holy grit, dissecting the surging waves of longing and love. These voices occupy the astrological 8th House, a house known for its healers and perversions, ruled by Pluto, where sex, death, and rebirth intersect and consume one another. Continuing to slice away at the distinctions between self and other, animal and human, male and female, the speaker of these poems exposes by being exposed.
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