Goddess of Democracy
an Occupy lyric
Seiten
2017
Omnidawn Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-63243-040-3 (ISBN)
Omnidawn Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-63243-040-3 (ISBN)
A lyric and historical examination of the Umbrella protests in Hong Kong
Selected by Cathy Park Hong as winner of the Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Prize
Written in and of the protest encampments of one of the most sophisticated Occupy movements in recent history, Goddess of Democracy attempts to understand the disobedience and desperation implicated in a love for freedom. Part lyric, part autoethnography, part historical document, these poems orbit around the manifold erasures of the Umbrella protests in Hong Kong in 2014. Leung, who was in those protests while on a Fulbright grant, navigates the ethics of diasporic dis-identity, of outsiderness and passing, of privilege and the pretension of understanding, in these poems that ask: “what is / freedom when divorced from / from?”
Selected by Cathy Park Hong as winner of the Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Prize
Written in and of the protest encampments of one of the most sophisticated Occupy movements in recent history, Goddess of Democracy attempts to understand the disobedience and desperation implicated in a love for freedom. Part lyric, part autoethnography, part historical document, these poems orbit around the manifold erasures of the Umbrella protests in Hong Kong in 2014. Leung, who was in those protests while on a Fulbright grant, navigates the ethics of diasporic dis-identity, of outsiderness and passing, of privilege and the pretension of understanding, in these poems that ask: “what is / freedom when divorced from / from?”
HENRY WEI LEUNG is the author of a chapbook, Paradise Hunger (2012), and the translator of Wawa's Pei Pei the Monkey King (2016). He earned his degrees from Stanford and the Helen Zell Writers' Program, and has been the recipient of Kundiman, Soros, and Fulbright Fellowships. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in such journals as the Crab Orchard Review, The Offing, Spillway, and ZYZZYVA. He is the Managing Editor of the Hawai'i Review.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.02.2018 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Contest |
| Verlagsort | Richmond, CA |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-63243-040-1 / 1632430401 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-63243-040-3 / 9781632430403 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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