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Quiet Night Think: Poems & Essays

Quiet Night Think: Poems & Essays

Sze, Gillian

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ISBN10: 1770416250
ISBN13: 9781770416253
Publisher: Ecw Pr
Published: Apr 5 2022
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.35 Width: 5.61 Depth: 8.57
Language: English
Quiet Night Think is a stunning work. -- Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing

One function of the poet at any time is to discover by his own thought and feeling what seems to him to be poetry at that time, writes Wallace Stevens. In Quiet Night Think, award-winning poet Gillian Sze expresses her own definition.

During the remarkable period of early parenthood, Sze's new maternal role urges her to contemplate her own origins, both familial and artistic. Comprised of six personal essays, poems, and a concluding long poem, Quiet Night Think takes its title from a direct translation of an eighth-century Chinese poem by Li Bai, the subject of the opening essay. Sze's memory of reading Li Bai's poem as a child marks the beginning of an unshakable encounter with poetry. What follows is an intimate anatomization of her particular entanglement with languages and cultures.

In her most generically diverse book yet, Sze moves between poetry and prose, mother and writer, the lyrical and the autobiographical, all the while inviting readers to meditate with her on questions of emergence and transformation: What are you trying to be? Where does a word break off? What calls to us throughout the night?

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