Dwarf Bamboo

By Marilyn Chin

Chin's first collection of verse, Dwarf Bamboo (1987), which she dedicated to the Communist poet and revolutionary Ai Qing, contains many poems that focus on the immigrant experience in the United... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0912678712
• ISBN13: 9780912678719
• Release Date: November 1987
• Publisher: Greenfield Review Literary Center, Incorporated
• Length: 77 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Poems that fill the mind's eye with Chinese textures.

Taste, smells, colors, textures, emotions- these poems deliver the goods. In particular, "A 17 Line Poem about Poverty" brings to mind these lines, "She thought he broke her heart. Instead he saved her life. She would have known true heartache, had she become his wife." Judy Dehen