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Based on sources as diverse as Heian period female Japanese writers and the world of science fiction, and drawing on her own experience as a second-generation Japanese American, acclaimed poet Lee Ann Roripaugh's fourth collection explores a series of "word betrayals"--English words misunderstood in transmission from her Japanese mother that came to take on symbolic ramifications in her early years. Co-opting and repurposing the language of knowledge and of misunderstanding, and dialoguing in original ways with notions of diaspora and hybrid identities, these poems demonstrate the many ways we attempt to be understood, culminating in an experience of aural awe. At once wonderfully lyrical and strikingly acute, Dandarians will further establish Lee Ann Roripaugh as one of the most important and original voices in contemporary Asian American literature.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry Poetry by individual poets

• Full title: Dandarians
• Subtitle: Poems
• Author: Lee Ann Roripaugh
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112
• EAN: 9781571314581
• ISBN: 157131458X
• ID: 04818965
• Publisher: Milkweed Editions
• Weight: 158 g
• Dimensions: 215 × 161 × 10 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. August 2014

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