Chai Eleanor - Standing Water Poems - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: A profound literary debut that recounts a child's singular story Since I made you you may imagine I set myself on fire or better say: you lit the funeral pyre from ten thousand days away. A young woman in Paris encounters an uncanny presence on a tour of a small museum. A study by Rodin of the dancer Little Hanako titled Head of Sorrow triggers in the young woman recognition of her mother a mother erased from her life since childhood. Thus begins Eleanor Chai's Standing Water one of the most remarkable first books of poetry in recent years. It is a journey into the past as well as the present into the narrative hidden from the poet since birth as well as the strategies that she has adopted to survive. It is a journey about how we learn to cope with to perceive and describe the world. It is a story about savage privilege and deprivation. Haunting the whole is the figure of the real Little Hanako Rodin's model a Japanese artist displaced in Europe the medium through which other artists dream and discover the world.
Title: Standing Water Poems
Author(s): Chai Eleanor
Publisher: Farrar Straus And Giroux
Barcode: 9780374536862
Pages: 112 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 4/4/2017