Magic Whip

Name: Magic Whip
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ISBN: 9781566891479

ISBN-10: 1566891477

ISBN-13: 9781566891479

Edition: 2003

Authors: Wang Ping

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This melodic, visceral collection -juxtaposes the author's unbridled joy in motherhood with the complex and brutal practice of footbinding in China, the plight of Tibet, and the remarkable endurance of survivors everywhere. The Magic Whip pays particular attention to women and children whose ordeals have been -imprinted on their very bodies and whose memories resonate in these -exceptionally clear poems. Wang Ping, born in Shanghai, came to New York City in 1985 after graduating from Beijing University. She is the acclaimed author of the novel Foreign Devil, the story collection American Visa, the poetry collection Of Flesh & Spirit, and the academic study Aching for Beauty: Footbinding…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Publication date: 10/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 90
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.462
Language: English

Wang Ping was born in Shanghai, she teaches creative writing at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.



The Magic Whip


After Thrashing About, but Not Violently


Mixed Blood


First Step


On the Other Hand


Our Teacher of Marxism


Bombs, Orange, Bags of Rice


Silent Witness


On the Blue Treasure Plateau


Wet Nurse, Mother Goose


Where the Story Goes


Ways to Ai [actual symbol not reproducible]


Aching for Beauty


Insomnia in Downtown St. Paul


I Curse Because


Phoenix Claws


Oral


Star Map


Eight Thousand Miles of Roads


Opening the Face


Fractured Allegory, Hand-copied Manual


Stones and Bronzes


Adam's Prayer


Distilled Spirit


Ode to the Mississippi


Sequoia


The Pilgrims


Night Shift


Zhangmu


Aftertaste


Outskirts


Great Summons


On a Playground ...


Heart and Liver


Tsunami Chant


Notes