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From an awardwinning poet comes a collection on heartbreak and transitions written with a piercing lyric ferocity
FINALISTFOR THE NEW ENGLAND BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY Written with great tenderness and intimacy Dream of the Divided Field reveals what we do and do not owe to others and what we owe to ourselvesPoets amp Writers
The poems in Yanyis latest book suggest that we enter and exit our old selves like homes We look through the windows and recognize some former aspect of our lives that is both ours and not ours We long for what we had even as we recognize that we can no longer live there Yanyi conjures the beloved both within and without us the beloved we believe we know the beloved who is never the person we imagine and the beloved who threatens to erase us even as we stand before them
How can we carry our homes with us Informed by Yanyis experiences of immigration violent heartbreak and a bodily transition Dream of the Divided Field explores the contradictions that accompany shifts from one state of being to another In tender serene and ethereal poems Dream of the Divided Field examines a body breaking down and a body that rebuilds in limitless and boundaryshifting ways These are homes in memoryhomes of love and isolation lust and alienation tenderness and violence suffering and wonder
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