Instructions for Folding: Poems

by Willie Lin

In one of the poems in Instructions for Folding, Willie Lin writes, "it seemed you were away but not beyond language." And accordingly, the voice in these poems is sometimes fervid, sometimes wry, moved to speech by the specific desire to speak to someone. The poems often progress associatively, following a kind of lyric logic of involution, disruption, and juxtaposition. They rehearse the work of learning the heft and shape of memories...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081013103X
• ISBN13: 9780810131033
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 4.9" x 6.8"