Return

By Emily Lee Luan

Book Overview

Through the recurrence of memory, myth, and grief, 回 / Return captures the elusory language of sorrow and solitude that binds Taiwanese diasporic experience.

Rooted in the classical tradition of the Chinese "reversible" poem, 回 / Return is engaged in the act of looking back--toward an imagined homeland and a childhood of suburban longing, through migratory passages, departures, and etymologies, and into the various holes and voids that appear in the telling and retelling of history. The poems ask: What is feeling? What is melancholy? Can language translate either?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1643621742
• ISBN13: 9781643621746
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Nightboat Books
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"