Of Gods & Strangers

A meditation on history and the imagination that bears witness to acts of genocide and to natural disasters in Ethiopia, Haiti, and Sri Lanka, Of Gods & Strangers interweaves lyrical, arresting accounts of our contemporary world with stories of "Empress Dowager" Tzu Hsi, last empress of China (1861-1908). An urgent reminder that poetry can offer us a social consciousness--"in my locked mouth an urge"--Of Gods & Strangers deftly traces the human dimensions of the "great modern machine," looking to recover the present and its people through the past's "faulty memory."

Author: Tina Chang
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Four Way Books
Published: 10/11/2011
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 6.07h x 8.97w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781935536178