"Cutting Together a History"
"Li—a poet and translator working in English, Chinese, French, and German—has written what is at once a family history and a history of modern China, one in which the unique experiences of a few stand in for those of many. The history—or histories—contained in Li’s collection are a cutting-together of the past in both the singular and plural, the part and the whole trapped together in a hall of mirrors."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Tiana Nobile on A. Van Jordan's M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A: Poems
"By juxtaposing the MacNolia narrative poems with snapshots of historical figures, M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A considers the ways in which racism shaped Black daily existence and one individual’s life’s trajectory. Thus, M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A is not only a story of one disenchanted woman or crushed little girl; it is the story of a generation. Jordan pushes me to think about how language impacts history, meaning, and people’s lived experiences." |
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