This debut collection of vivid, lyrical poems explores the emotional landscape of childhood without confession and without straightforward narrative. Chang sweeps together myth and fairy tale, skirting the edges of events to focus on the psychological tenor of experience: the underpinnings of identity and the role of nature in both constructing and erasing a self. From the edge of the ocean, where things constantly shift and dissolve, through ""the forest's thick, / where the trees meet the dark,"" to an imaginary cliffside town of fog, this book makes a journey both natural and psychological, using experiments in language and form to capture the search for personhood and place.

About the Author
Jennifer Chang's poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, New England Review, New Republic, Prairie Schooner and other publications. She is a founder and advisory board member of Kundiman, a nonprofit organization that promotes Asian American poetry.

Reviews
In this remarkable first collection, Jennifer Chang writes, 'You don't see the black line of yourself, / the vanishing / you slowly come to.' Spare yet sinuous; haunted, visionary; these poems continually enact encounters between what vanishes and what burns in the body and mind. - Arthur Sze, author of Quipu



Book Information
ISBN 9780820331164
Author Jennifer Chang
Format Paperback
Page Count 96
Imprint University of Georgia Press
Publisher University of Georgia Press
Weight(grams) 145g