Year of the Snake: Poems by Lee Ann Roripaugh (The Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry) - Softcover

Roripaugh, Lee Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809325691 ISBN 13: 9780809325696

Verlag: SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIV PR, 2004

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In her second collection of poems, Lee Ann Roripaugh probes themes of mixed-race female identities, evoking the molting processes of snakes and insects who shed their skins and shells as an ongoing metaphor for transformation of self. Intertwining contemporary renditions of traditional Japanese myths and fairy tales with poems that explore the landscape of childhood and early adolescence, she blurs the boundaries between myth and memory, between real and imagined selves. This collection explores cultural, psychological, and physical liminalities and exposes the diasporic arc cast by first-generation Asian American mothers and their second-generation daughters, revealing a desire for metamorphosis of self through time, geography, culture, and myth.

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Lee Ann Roripaugh’s first collection of poems, Beyond Heart Mountain, was a 1998 winner of the National Poetry Series Award. She is the recipient of a 2003 Artist Fellowship from the Archibald Bush Foundation, the Randall Jarrell International Poetry Prize, and the Academy of American Poets Prize. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, North American Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Crab Orchard Review, and in the anthology Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of South Dakota.

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• Verlag: SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIV PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0809325691
• ISBN 13: 9780809325696
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 80
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