Marilyn Chin

A debut novel by an award-winning poet and author of Rhapsody in Plain Yellow finds raucous twins Moonie and Mei Ling Wong working as Chinese food delivery couriers in southern California, where they fearlessly assert their intellect and sexuality in an effort to become accomplished women. Original.

Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen: A Novel

Spanning thirty years of dazzling work--from luminous early love lyrics to often-anthologized Asian American identity anthems, from political and subversive hybrid forms to feminist manifestos--A Portrait of the Self as Nation is a selection from one of America's most original and vital voices. Marilyn Chin's passionate, polyphonic poetry travels freely from the personal to the mythic, from the political to the spiritual. Deeply engaged with the complexities of cultural assimilation, feminism, and the Asian American experience, she spins precise, beautiful metaphors as she illuminates hard-hitting truths.A Portrait of the Self as Nation celebrates Chin's innovative activist poetry: her fearless and often confrontational early collections, Dwarf Bamboo and The Phoenix Gone, the Terrace Empty; the rebellious, vivid language of Rhapsody in Plain Yellow; and the erotic elegies of Hard Love Province. Also included are excerpts from Chin's daring novel, Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen, and a vibrant chapter of new poems and translations.In poems that are direct and passionately charged, Marilyn Chin raises her voice against systems of oppression even as her language shines with devastating power and beauty. Image after image, line by line, Chin's masterfully reinvented quatrains, sonnets, allegories, and elegies are unforgettable.

New and Selected Poems

Portrait of the Self as Nation

A first generation Asian American offers a collection of poems reflecting images of both Asian and Western cultures

The Phoenix Gone, the Terrace Empty

A fusion of east and west, high culture, popular culture, and ancient Chinese history mark this distinguished collection.

Rhapsody in Plain Yellow

Bhanu Kapil

Jihyun Yun

Larissa Lai

Franny Choi

Hala Alyan

Victoria Chang

Monica Sok

Devi Laskar

Karen An-hwei Lee

Sun Yung Shin

Ryka Aoki

Diana Khoi Nguyen

Jane Wong

Nancy Chen Long

Eileen Tabios

Carlina Duan

Michelle Lee

Doyali Islam

Jessica Abughattas

Dena Igusti

Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello

Paul Tran

Cynthia Dewi Oka

Mary-Kim Arnold

Mia Ayumi Malhotra

Maw Shein Win

Do Nguyen Mai

Shazia Hafiz Ramji

Su Cho

Jenna Le

Su Fang Ng

Isabella Wang

Amy Lam

Angie Sijun Lou

Nellie Wong

Torsa Ghosal

Kailee Pedersen

Manahil Bandukwala

Allison Albino

Sarah Audsley

Hajjar Baban

Maria Isabelle Carlos

Catherine Chen

Jennifer Cheng

Debra Kang Dean

Anuja Ghimire

Kate Hao

Mai-Linh Hong

C. X. Hua

Resi Ibanez

Ann Inoshita

Maya Khosla

Maddie Kim

Juliet Kono

Hyejung Kook

Iria Law

Mari L 'Esperance

Pacyinz Lyfoung

Meher Manda

Aurora Masum-Javed

Lani Montreal

Amy Patel

Yamini Pathak

Michelle Penaloza

Angela Penaredondo

Megan Pinto

Preeti Kaur Rajpal

Swati Rana

Karen Rigby

Raena Shirali

C. E. Shue

Kristen Sze-Tu

Lehua Taitano

Alaisha Verdeflor

Kara Kai Wang

Annette Wong

Shelly Wong

Jessica Yuan

They Rise Like A Wave: An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets is a collection of hundreds of contemporary poems by both established and emerging Asian American Women Poets.

An Anthology of Asian American Women Poets

They Rise Like a Wave

A new collection of poems from a prominent Chinese American writer and feminist features love songs and elegies infused with verbal experimentation, raw energy and emotional nuance, in this follow up to Rhapsody in Plain Yellow.

Poems

Hard Love Province

A fusion of east and west, high culture, popular culture, and ancient Chinese history mark this distinguished collection. Marilyn Chin, with her multilayered, multidimensional, intercultural singing, elegizes the loss of her mother and maternal grandmother and tries to unravel the complexities of her family's past. She tells of the trials of immigration, of exile, of thwarted interracial love, and of social injustice. Some poems recall the Confucian "Book of Songs," while others echo the African American blues tradition and Western railroad ballads. The title poem references the Han Dynasty rhapsody but is also a wild, associative tour de force. Political allegories sing out with personal revelations. Personal revelations open up to a universal cry for compassion and healing. These songs emerge as a powerful and elegant collection: sophisticated yet moving, hard-hitting yet refined.

Rhapsody in Plain Yellow: Poems

"Marilyn Chin's poems depict the Asian American struggle with assimilation and describe the resulting alienation or acceptance with astonishing honesty and clarity"--Back cover.

Dwarf Bamboo

Marilyn Chin

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