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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-57131-439-0
Pages: 112
Publish Date: Dec, 2009
Genre: Poetry
The Phoenix Gone, The Terrace Empty
BY Marilyn Chin
In the fifteen years since Milkweed Editions’ original publication of The Phoenix Gone, The Terrace Empty, Marilyn Chin has been widely celebrated as a consummate poet of the hybrid experience. At once ancient and contemporary, personal and political, grounded and yet uniquely dazzling, this extraordinary collection blends Asian and Western sensibilities in a pioneering way.
Featuring an afterword by the author addressing this collection’s effect and the developments in her work since, this new edition reintroduces a modern classic to a new generation of readers.
"Marilyn Chin's poems excite and incite the imagination through their brilliant cultural interfacings, their theatre of anger, 'fierce and tender,' compassion, high mockery of wit."
—Adrienne Rich, author of Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth"Full of mysterious images, gifts from another culture, details that enlarge our world."
—Library Journal"Chin's dazzling longing creates a past that becomes essential to our understanding of her elliptical and passionately insistent poetic statement."
—Los Angeles Times"These poems combine sumptuous imagery and startling, articulate intelligence to explore and record the horrifying as well as the satisfying, the seductive components of hyphenated (American) identity. Chin wrestles and she flies with both sides of her continuing history. . . . I cannot imagine a more compelling manuscript of poems centered on the difficult gift of racial and cultural 'double consciousness.'"
—June Jordan, author of Directed by Desire
