all worth in shared joy only
at times uncomfortable or disturbing questions
an anthem of desire against erasure
Using Alice Notley's 1981 poem 'The Prophet' as an intertextual launchpad
Fetal Position is a poetic study of different forms of labor in scenes of their emergence such as the noise of being born and transmissions of inter-generational violence
The Past De introductie van het plot all worth in shared joyWendy Xu Born in Shandong, China, in 1987, Wendy Xu immigrated to the United States in 1989, three days ahead of the events of Thiananmen Square. The Past probes the multi generational binds of family, displacement, and immigration as an ongoing psychic experience without end. Moving spontaneously between lyric, fragment, prose, and subversions in "traditional" Chinese forms, the book culminates in a centerpiece series of "Tiananmen Sonnets" to