Chamber after Chamber
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Juniper Prize for Poetry
ISBN-10
1625347782
ISBN-13
9781625347787
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Imprint
University of Massachusetts Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 1st, 2024
Print length
66 Pages
Weight
124 grams
Dimensions
22.70 x 15.30 x 0.70 cms
Product Classification:
Poetry / poems by individual poetsPoetry by individual poets
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A loose narrative in three sections, these poems follow a speaker and her cousin through their hardscrabble, backwoods childhood to their separation - both physical and emotional - as adults.
Chamber after Chamber is about what fractures, fixes, and refills the hearts of two girls as they grow into women. A loose narrative in three sections, the poems follow a speaker and her cousin through their hardscrabble, backwoods childhood to their separation—both physical and emotional—as adults. From the make-believe apocalypses and cut-and-paste valentines of elementary school to the stadium-seating classrooms and multiplexes of southern China, our speaker tries to leave the shame and dysfunction of her family behind. In China, she begins to see America—and herself—clearly for the first time, and in doing so discovers that both her cousin and her country are inextricably woven into [her body] part that never sleeps the blood and chambered meat that’s like a rock squeezed in a fist rapping its knuckles on the sweet door of the body.
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