Lee Ann Roripaugh

Dandarians (eBook, ePUB)

Poems

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Hailed by Ishmael Reed as "one of our brightest talents," Lee Ann Roripaugh's fourth collection of poems maps the illusory and ephemeral connection between identities and language.

Based on sources as diverse as Heian-period Japanese women writers and the world of science fiction, and drawing on her own experience as a second-generation Japanese American, Dandarians explores a series of "word betrayals"-English words misunderstood in transmission from her Japanese mother that came to take on symbolic ramifications in her early years. Co-opting and repurposing the language of knowledge and of misunderstanding, and dialoguing in original ways with notions of diaspora and hybrid identities, these poems demonstrate the many ways we attempt to be understood, culminating in an experience of aural awe.

At once wonderfully lyrical and strikingly acute, Dandarians will further establish Lee Ann Roripaugh as one of the most important and original voices in contemporary Asian American literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Milkweed Editions
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781571318961
• Artikelnr.: 41509759

Autorenporträt

Lee Ann Roripaugh is the author of three previous collections of poems. Her first collection, Beyond Heart Mountain (Penguin, 1999), was selected by Ishmael Reed as a National Poetry Series winner. Her second book, Year of the Snake (University of Southern Illinois Press, 2004) was a Crab Orchard Poetry Series winner. And then most recently, On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year (University of Southern Illinois Press, 2009) was hailed as "gorgeous, vibrant, and playful” (Bich Minh Nguyen). Lee Ann Roripaugh is also the recipient of the 1995 Randall Jarrell International Poetry Prize, an Academy of American Poets prize, and an Archibald Bush Foundation Individual Artist Fellowship. She serves as Editor-in-Chief of South Dakota Review and directs the creative writing program at the University of South Dakota. She resides in Vermillion, South Dakota.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS Part I The Planet of Dandar Hiroshima, Mon Amour Chasing the
Dragon Imprint Griots' Signposts Trompe l'Oeil: The Annotated Version Part
II Senchimental Butch/Femme in the Streets/Sheets Unswallowing Of Course
I'm Nobody . . . But Who Are You? Antimacassar Skywriting Daylight Savings
Time: An Interrogatory Part III Animoaney Spillover Bruised Interrogation
Annealing 1. Like a Blown Fuse 2. Crackpot 3. Handle With Care 4. Raku
Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Vermillion River Sleepless Graffiti Part IV
Dee Aster Hola, Hola Talk Television: Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom Ten
Nights' Dreams 1. Georgia O'Keefe 2. Gem City: A Migraine Dream 3. Rehab 4.
Open It 5. Biohazard 6. Garmonbozia 7. B. Head 8. Book 'Em, Danno 9.
"You're Going to Make Me Lonesome When You Go” 10. Extinguish Part V
Femanint Underworlded 'Round About Midnight Concatenations: A Reprise
Inquiline Fibonacci Irezumi (or, Tattoo You) The Violin Thief