Naturalism
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| Rating | : | 4.35 (678 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1936767449 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 42 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the Author Wendy Xu is the author of You Are Not Dead (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2013) and the recipient of a 2014 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. . She lives in Brooklyn and teaches writing at CUNY. Her writing has appeared in The Best American Poetry, Poetry, Guernica, Gulf Coast, jubilat, and elsewhere
Outright dangerous. She is leading my sight across our terrific landscape. Elegant. “The tremendous pleasure of following the vectors of Wendy Xu’s sharp and sparkling mind makes these poems transformative. “What if truly one builds an empire of doubt,” she asks and so an uncanny world she builds that lives in opening, endless, glimmering opening. No, she’s building it in me.” -Solmaz Sharif
Her writing has appeared in The Best American Poetry, Poetry, Guernica, Gulf Coast, jubilat, and elsewhere. . Wendy Xu is the author of You Are Not Dead (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2013) and the recipient of a 2014 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. She lives in Brooklyn and teaches writing at CUNY
C. D. Varn said Rewards Multiple Re-Readings. Originally published at the Hong Kong Review of Books)At first read, Wendy Xu’s Naturalism was disorienting: enjoyable but shifting between earnestness and abstraction, concrete imaginary and surreal fugue, political and aesthetic declaration. For a chapbook, that is a lot of jagged edges juxtaposed and jutting into each other. Yet this, even more than most books of poetry, rewards being read several times: the logic of t