Dancing brilliantly between Eastern and Western forms, fusing ancient Chinese history and contemporary American popular culture, she is one of the most celebrated Asian-American poets writing today. Chin's fourth volume of poems, Hard Love Province, is composed of erotic elegies in which the speaker...
I've known about Marilyn Chin (I even met her once) for about eight years now, but I'd never read more than one poem of hers until I finished Hard Love Province. I'm out of practice at reading poetry, and I don't know how much of these poems I understood. There were many references that I got, and t...
It was... interesting...The book is basically made up of anecdotes of life around American Chinese Twins, Moonie and Mei Ling Wong. So it's not the usual continuous storyline although it appears to be chronological (if not, quite nearly chronological). The stories were strange and I feel that they...
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