Overpour - Softcover

Wong, Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0900575913 ISBN 13: 9780900575914

Publisher: Action Books, 2016

Synopsis

Poetry. Asian American Studies. "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

About this title

About the Author:

Jane Wong holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and is a former U.S. Fulbright Fellow and Kundiman Fellow. She is the recipient of scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Squaw Valley, and the Fine Arts Work Center. The recipient of The American Poetry Review's 2016 Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize, poems have appeared in journals such as Pleiades, The Volta, Third Coast, and the anthologies Best American Poetry 2015 (Scribner), Best New Poets 2012 (The University of Virginia Press) and The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral (Ahsahta Press). Her chapbooks include: Dendrochronology (dancing girl press), Kudzu Does Not Stop (Organic Weapon Arts), and Impossible Map (Fact-Simile). She is the author of OVERPOUR (Action Books, 2016). Currently, she is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pacific Lutheran University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Action Books
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0900575913
• ISBN 13: 9780900575914
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 99