Title: Dandarians : poems /
Authors: Roripaugh, Lee Ann.
Year: 2014
Subjects: POETRY / American / General.; American poetry
Abstract: "Based on sources as diverse as Heian period female Japanese writers and the world of science fiction, and drawing on her own experience as a second-generation Japanese American, acclaimed poet Lee Ann Roripaugh's fourth collection explores a series of "word betrayals"-English words misunderstood in transmission from her Japanese mother that came to take on symbolic ramifications in her early years. Co-opting and repurposing the language of knowledge and of misunderstanding, and dialoguing in original ways with notions of diaspora and hybrid identities, these poems demonstrate the many ways we attempt to be understood, culminating in an experience of aural awe. At once wonderfully lyrical and strikingly acute, Dandarians will further establish Lee Ann Roripaugh as one of the most important and original voices in contemporary Asian American literature. "--
Contents: Machine generated contents note: CONTENTS -- Part I -- The Planet of Dandar -- Hiroshima, Mon Amour -- Chasing the Dragon -- Imprint -- Griots' Signposts -- Trompe l'Oeil: The Annotated Version -- Part II -- Senchimental -- Butch/Femme in the Streets/Sheets -- Unswallowing -- Of Course I'm Nobody. But Who Are You? -- Antimacassar -- Skywriting -- Daylight Savings Time: An Interrogatory -- Part III -- Animoaney -- Spillover -- Bruised Interrogation -- Annealing -- 1. Like a Blown Fuse -- 2. Crackpot -- 3. Handle With Care -- 4. Raku -- Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Vermillion River -- Sleepless Graffiti -- Part IV -- Dee Aster -- Hola, Hola -- Talk Television: Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom -- Ten Nights' Dreams -- 1. Georgia O'Keefe -- 2. Gem City: A Migraine Dream -- 3. Rehab -- 4. Open It -- 5. Biohazard -- 6. Garmonbozia -- 7. B. Head -- 8. Book 'Em, Danno -- 9. "You're Going to Make Me Lonesome When You Go" -- 10. Extinguish -- Part V -- Femanint -- Underworlded -- 'Round About Midnight -- Concatenations: A Reprise -- Inquiline -- Fibonacci -- Irezumi (or, Tattoo You) -- The Violin Thief.