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In this dazzling collection, full of wit and energy, Marilyn Chin defines her existence as a first-generation Asian-American woman, effectively straddling two cultures. Chin spins virtuoso jazz in her juxtaposition of the contemporary with images and metaphors from Chinese tales and classic poems, creating a poetry of self that is at once ancient and contemporary, Asian and Western. Book jacket.Chin, Marilyn is the author of 'Phoenix Gone, the Terrace Empty/Poems', published 1994 under ISBN 9780915943876 and ISBN 0915943875.
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