What is powerful about her work is how all these strange and disparate images cohere as a whole. On stage is a family of immigrants. In short, Priscilla Lee has offered us a rich picture of her particular life. Unlike other books of poetry that may inspire philosophical questioning or universalize all that is human, Wishbone seems most valuable as a historical recording, an honest account of a particular place during a particular time. By skillfully laying the colorful details of her experience side by side, Lee has created a poignant image of her own attempt to find herself in a land of culture complexities.
Wishbone is definitely worth reading.