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Synopsis
Poetry. Asian American Studies. "Hung Q. Tu's poetic modules are not 'pieces' in the traditional sense--that is, staged, subjectively actored and assumedly audienced, they are more like an intelligent arraying of graffiti that you'd run into in a modern city's sub-throughway, perhaps a bit run-down, but with a shiny glass building across the street..."--Rodrigo Toscano. "Hung Q. Tu's poems push the mind into a nest of steel rods all hitting the surface of an unknown shape at the same moment: political and quotidian, in language demotic and arcane they acutely render the beauty of scorn"--Tom Raworth.
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Following up on Verisimilitude (2000), Tu's eight formally spare and elegant assays hold globalism and first-world mindsets in a sort of suspended animation, like a punk-rock diorama, or a meditative counter-spectacle to a 24-hour cable news channel: "Teriyaki plains indians/ Napoleon rose to the rank of syndrome/ salary hats/ well-armed drunks wear out the welcome wagon/ ski masks as hood ornament// pinch me I'm in America," writes Tu in the opener, "Tophatters." The air of the interior exile is apparent in the ironic eye cast on all social narratives, and in a dark wit that doesn't seem to believe that spontaneous creativity, even if ebullient, can really matter. An intentional aridness intensifies this sense of remove, and allows a kind of rigorous stock-taking and role-shifting. The sequence "[untitled]" is perhaps the loosest, most frenetic and daunting piece. Seemingly random at first, rushing from word to word without breaking to assess the phrase, a careful reading reveals Tu's characteristic acidity ("evidence/ in stitches") and many mischievous spanners thrown into works of false consciousness: "psyched `nice boss' medicinal/ I saw my tenth-grade heart replaced by/ a conch on CBS aka him vinegar joe/ akimbo bareheaded and bespectacled/ etc. ended in the fifties." Such sequences, and there are many here, take readers on a lively, deftly accounted gallery tour that puts together some hardcore, if unsettled and bleak, structures for thinking and feeling.
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Structures of Feeling
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Krupskaya, San Francisco, CA, 2003
ISBN 10: 1928650198
ISBN 13: 9781928650195
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Softcover. Condition: Near Very Good. First Edition. Presumed first printing with NAP, trade paperback, has pulls to the binding at the title page and second to last page, but remains solid. The book also has bumps with a touch of peeling to the spine ends and cover corners, light rubbing with staining and a touch of toned offsetting to the covers, peeling to the laminate at the fore edge of the back cover, and bubbling to the laminate along the spine. Overall, a Near Very Good copy. Seller Inventory # 214262