Your historical loveliness knows no bounds : form, futurity, and documentary desire /
Moving freely between essay, close-reading, ekphrasis, memoir, travelogue, lecture notes, poetry, and even monologue, Your Historical Loveliness Knows No Bounds presents a series of "thinking-throughs" of formally innovative and politically oriented poets pushing the boundaries of what poe...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
2025.
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| Summary: | Moving freely between essay, close-reading, ekphrasis, memoir, travelogue, lecture notes, poetry, and even monologue, Your Historical Loveliness Knows No Bounds presents a series of "thinking-throughs" of formally innovative and politically oriented poets pushing the boundaries of what poetry can hold. Tracing a personal family history of immigration amidst larger concerns of diaspora, "unsayability," and absence, Wendy Xu reads the work of poets including Layli Long Soldier, Inger Christensen, Ocean Vuong, Liu Xia, giovanni singleton, Bei Dao, Diana Khoi Nguyen, and others. She explores existential and pedagogical questions in poetry from the point of view of a reader and a teacher. Why write? and why invite the paradoxes of a documentary approach into that writing? |
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| Physical Description: | x, 184 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780472040001 0472040006 |