Of Gods Strangers
A meditation on history and the imagination that bears witness to acts of genocide and to natural disasters in Ethiopia, Haiti, and Sri Lanka, Of Gods & Strangers interweaves lyrical, arresting accounts of our contemporary world with stories of “Empress Dowager” Tzu Hsi, last empress of China (1861-1908). An urgent reminder that poetry can offer us a social consciousness — “in my locked mouth an urge” — Of Gods & Strangers deftly traces the human dimensions of the “great modern machine,” looking to recover the present and its people through the past’s “faulty memory.”
- Author
- Tina Chang
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 112
- Publisher
- Four Way Books
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781935536178
- Genres
- poetry
- Release date
- 2011
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