Crazy Melon and Chinese Apple The Poems of Frances Chung

Name: Crazy Melon and Chinese Apple The Poems of Frances Chung
Price: 8.14 USD
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ISBN: 9780819564160

ISBN-10: 0819564168

ISBN-13: 9780819564160

Edition: 2000

Authors: Frances Chung, Walter Lew, Walter K. Lew

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Frances Chung's poetry stands alone as the most perceptive, aesthetically accomplished, and compassionate depiction of a supposedly impenetrable community during the late 1960s and 70s. Written "For the Chinatown People" and imprinted with Chung's own ink seal, Crazy Melon is collects brief poems and prose vignettes set in New York's Chinatown and Lower East Side. Chung incorporates Spanish and Chinese into her English in deft evocations of these neighborhoods' streets, fantasies, commerce, and toil. The title of her second collection, Chinese Apple, translates the Chinese word for pomegranate: there she offers "small crimson bites" of new themes and cityscapes -- delightfully understated…

Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Publication date: 12/18/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 189
Size: 1.00" wide x 1.00" long x 0.58" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English