Marilyn Chin is a poet acclaimed by Adrienne Rich for her
"powerful, uncompromised, and unerring" poems. 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 grieves for the loss of her beloved. In "Void"
she writes with the imagistic, distilled quietude of a solitary
mourner: "It's not that you are rare / Nor are you extraordinary //
O lone wren sobbing on the bodhi tree / You are simple and
sincere." In "Formosan Elegy," by contrast, she is that mourner,
beyond simplicity or quietude, crying out for a lover: "I sing for
you but my tears have dried in my gullet / Walk the old dog give
the budgies a cool bath / Cut a tender melon let it bleed into
memory." Here, too, are poems inspired by Chin's poetic forbearers
and mentors-Dickinson, Plath, Ai, Gwendolyn Brooks, Tu Fu, Adrienne
Rich, and others-honoring their work and descrying the global
injustice they addressed. "Whose life is it anyway?" she asks in a
poem for Rich, "She born of chrysalis and shit / Or she born of
woman and pain?" Emotionally nuanced and electric with high-flying
verbal experimentation, image after image, line by line, Chin's
spectacular reinventions, her quatrains, sonnets, allegories, and
elegies, are unforgettable.
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