| You Are Not Dead Contributor(s): Xu, Wendy (Author) |
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ISBN: 0986025720 ISBN-13: 9780986025723 Publisher: Cleveland State University Poetry Center OUR PRICE: $15.15 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2013 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2012051266 |
| Series: Cleveland State University Poetry Center New Poetry |
| Physical Information: 0.2" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (0.26 lbs) 84 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Poetry. Asian American Studies. In YOU ARE NOT DEAD Wendy Xu breaks all the old rules that have never done us any favors anyway. She writes beautifully, noticing who we are, and letting us see ourselves with a little more humanity, a little more humor, a little more humility. I'm happy to have read this book.--James Tate There's a wild and wondrous poet plundering-through our lives, collecting the oddest and most significant things, turning our thoughts toward things we couldn't have known before she turned us toward them. YOU ARE NOT DEAD is precisely how this book can get you to feel and that is an almost otherworldly power. The poet who imagines and builds these poems is irresistible.--Dara Wier That fluctuating space between the temporary and the infinite is an erogenous zone made all the more enticing when articulated so eloquently. 'We have a lifespan and O how we live it out.' Wendy Xu's poems posit for us a future, a presence, a body resistant to the ravages of time. Mortality is a far planet. Here in Xu's work, we are passionately, and gratefully, alive.--D. A. Powell |
Contributor Bio(s): Xu, Wendy: - 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. Her writing has appeared in The Best American Poetry, Poetry, Guernica, Gulf Coast, jubilat, and elsewhere. She lives in Brooklyn and teaches writing at CUNY. |