Overpour
By: Jane Wong
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 82
ISBN-13: 9780900575914
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: War poetry; Poetry; Nature
Other titles: Over pour
Description: "Jane Wong's powerful first book OVERPOUR weaves together seemingly disparate topics such as war and child's play, language and exile, debt, animals and nature. By doing so, Wong creates a space between--for the reader to enter. At the same time, by creating this space, she makes a space for possibility. For instance, in her poem 'Filed Notes Toward War,' Wong writes 'The war is not over. / The streets are lined with little lamps of snow, / melting. Water pours without end. / There is a swan bathing in my mouth.' Montage-like, the poems are also a kind of philosophy by which I mean they are curious. They ask questions of the world. Not afraid of being earnest, Wong's voice is both playful and cerebral, weaving in and out of the world-- its wars and its violence, poverty and alienation--making a beautiful and smart, strange and new, word elixir."--Cynthia Cruz, back cover.
Table of contents: title: Poem --; title: Twenty-four --; title: And the place was matter --; title: Debts --; title: Familiar stranger --; title: Pastoral power --; title: Field notes toward war --; title: Thirty --; title: Twenty-nine --; title: Elegy for the selves --; title: No need for the moon to shine in it --; title: Blood --; title: Encyclopedia, vol.; title: The act of killing --; title: Forty-three --; title: Guts --; title: Twenty-five --; title: Ceremony --; title: Thaw.