/ Return (Paperback)

Paperback. Rooted in the classical tradition of the Chinese reversible poem, / Return is engaged in the act of looking backtoward an imagined homeland and a childhood of suburban longing, through migratory passages, departures, and etymologies, and into the various holes and voids that appear in the telling and retelling of history. The poems ask: What is feeling? What is melancholy? Can language translate either? Through the recurrence of memory, myth, and grief, / Return captures the elusory language of sorrow and solitude that binds Taiwanese diasporic experience. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.