Bøger af Christine Kitano

"Christine Kitano's Dumb Luck & other poems offers a portrait of a thirty-something Asian American woman who finds herself living in the relative safety of upstate New York before and during the pandemic. In one poem the speaker reflects on current events (the ongoing pandemic, the murder of George Floyd and the ensuing protests, the surge in anti-Asian sentiment in the U.S.) and contrasts these with the peace of rural New York, wondering, "Is this / the reward for good luck, just a more / comfortable survival?" The poems in this collection orbit around this question, providing both lyric and narrative explorations on luck, guilt, and survival. Ultimately, these poems delve into how the otherwise mundane questions of selfhood and identity for a gendered and racialized body take on greater urgency during times of increased social unrest, panic, and violence"--

This anthology of Asian American wommen poets range from established poets like Marilyn Chin, Franny Choi, Victoria Chang, and Bhanu Kapil to emerging voices like Paul Tran, Ryka Aoki, Hyejung Kook, and Monica Sok. They Rise Like a Wave fosters a poetics of experimenting with language renewing a historically narrow and oppressive Western canon. At this time let us remember that our poetry can be a call to imagine how to build a better world.

Hungry for home and belonging, these poems re-imagine real and ideal experiences of immigration and displacement through Asian American perspectives.

Confident, beautifully crafted poems suggestive of a mature poet at the top of her form