A Thousand Crimson Blooms

Download or read book A Thousand Crimson Blooms written by Eileen Chong and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stunning new collection from prize-winning poet Eileen Chong - her most personal and accomplished work yet. Eileen Chong's luminous poetry examines the histories-personal, familial and cultural-that form our identities and obsessions. A Thousand Crimson Blooms is a deepening of her commitment to a poetics of sensuous simplicity and complex emotions, even as she confronts the challenges of infertility or fraught mother-daughter relations. Entwined throughout are questions of migration and belonging.Viewed as a whole, this collection is a field of flowers, aflame with light.