Doan, Mai
water/tongue
- ISBN 13:
- 9781632430656
- author:
- Doan, Mai
- format:
- Paperback / softback
- publisher:
- Omnidawn Publishing
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2019
- Pages:
- 72
- Dimensions:
- 167mm X 232mm
- Genre:
- Poetry, American, Poetry,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 5 working days
Description
Water/tongue is a deeply personal and powerful collection of poems that explore the author's experiences with loss, memory, and identity. Following her grandmother's suicide, Mai C. Doan embarked on a writing project to give voice to her grief and grapple with the complexities of articulation and documentation.
The poems in this book conjure visceral and intuitive elements of experience to articulate the gendered and intergenerational effects of violence, colonialism, and American empire. By breaking the silence surrounding these experiences, Doan brings together a host of voices from different times and spaces to better understand the pain that haunted her family.
This collection charts a path for both understanding and resistance, demonstrating how poetry can be used as a tool for subversion and social change. With its innovative form and unflinching honesty, Water/tongue invites readers to confront the hierarchies that structure our understanding of the world and ourselves.
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