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  title info:
    title: Muscle memory
  name:
    name part: Liou, Jenny
    name part: 1983-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 91 pages ; 19 cm.
  abstract: In Muscle Memory, Washington-based poet Jenny Liou grapples with violence and identity, beginning with the chain-link enclosure of the prizefighter's cage and radiating outward into the diasporic sweep of Chinese American history. Liou writes with spare, stunning lyricism about how cage fighting offered relief from the trauma inflicted by diaspora's vanishing ghosts, how, in the cage, an elbow splits an eyebrow, or an armbar snaps a limb and, even when you lose a fight, you've won something, pain. Liou places the physical manifestation of violence in her sport alongside the deeper traumas of immigration and her own complicated search for identity, exploring what she inherited from her Chinese immigrant father, who was also obsessed with poetry and martial arts. When she finally steps away from the cage to raise children of her own, Liou begins to question how violence and history pass from one generation to the next, and whether healing is possible without forgetting.
  note: Jenny Liou.
  note: Poetry browsing collection : gift of Eleanor Weinbaum family.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Liou, Jenny
      name part: 1983-
  subject:
    topic: American poetry
    topic: Chinese American authors
  subject:
    topic: American poetry
    temporal: 21st century
  classification: PS3612.I597 M87 2022
  identifier: 1885030800
  identifier: 9781885030801
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 211224
    record change date: 20221215174618.1
    record identifier: in00004631798