Goddess of Democracy: an Occupy Lyric (Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Contest)

Henry Wei Leung

ISBN 10: 1632430401 / ISBN 13: 9781632430403

Verlag: Omnidawn, Oakland, CA, 2017

Beschreibung

Spotless, tight, with no signs of wear or damage. It will be bubble-wrapped and carefully packed in a sturdy box to ensure safe transit.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABH6713

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Goddess of Democracy: an Occupy Lyric (Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Contest)
• Verlag: Omnidawn, Oakland, CA
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1632430401
• ISBN-13: 9781632430403
• Einband: Soft cover
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Zustand: As New
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket As Issued

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Inhaltsangabe

Selected by Cathy Park Hong as winner of the Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Prize Written in and of the protest encampments of one of the most sophisticated Occupy movements in recent history, Goddess of Democracy attempts to understand the disobedience and desperation implicated in a love for freedom. Part lyric, part autoethnography, part historical document, these poems orbit around the manifold erasures of the Umbrella protests in Hong Kong in 2014. Leung, who was in those protests while on a Fulbright grant, navigates the ethics of diasporic dis-identity, of outsiderness and passing, of privilege and the pretension of understanding, in these poems that ask: “what is / freedom when divorced from / from?”

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

HENRY WEI LEUNG is the author of a chapbook, Paradise Hunger (2012), and the translator of Wawa's Pei Pei the Monkey King (2016). He earned his degrees from Stanford and the Helen Zell Writers' Program, and has been the recipient of Kundiman, Soros, and Fulbright Fellowships. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in such journals as the Crab Orchard Review, The Offing, Spillway, and ZYZZYVA. He is the Managing Editor of the Hawai'i Review.