Red Flower, White Flower - Softcover

Tseng, Jennifer; Crippen, Aaron; Mengying, Han

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ISBN 10: 1934851515 ISBN 13: 9781934851517

Publisher: Marick Press, 2013

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Poetry. Translated into the Chinese by Mengying Han and Aaron Crippen. Bilingual edition. "The poems in Jennifer Tseng's RED FLOWER, WHITE FLOWER have a highly intuitive use of music, serious humor, mystery, grief, and along with grief, unguarded understanding and puzzlement, side by side. It is as if this poetry has been waiting in a room somewhere, or a river, or a forest, and now Jennifer Tseng has led us into it I sometimes even felt some sense of her own surprise all carried over with a sort of underwater intelligence, light gravity." Jean Valentine "It is cause for celebration to find a writer who does not shy away from feelings as particular as ardor, ache, solace feelings rising from 'strange invitations' in real-life settings or in fables, Chinese and archetypal. Open the covers and hear Jennifer Tseng's bright voice in RED FLOWER, WHITE FLOWER." Kimiko Hahn"

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The poems in Red Flower, White Flower are lyric interviews with communion and solitude, nativity and immigration, generation and regeneration. Like a tree that bears both red and white fruit, the two flowers are grafted; their meanings grow from one tangled source. Influenced as much by children's fables and Chinese folktales as by metaphysical poets of the last few centuries, these poems cleave to multiplicity, hybridity, crossness, being dappled. At once elegy and introduction, they are the poems of an immigrant's descendant writing in the 21st century. These bilingual poems return lost baggage to lone travelers; they dwell in one homeland while always keeping other homelands in sight.

About the Author:

Jennifer Tseng's book The Man With My Face (AAWW, 2005) won the 2005 Asian American Writers' Workshop's National Poetry Manuscript Competition and a 2006 PEN American Center Open Book Award.

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