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Loop of Jade by Sarah Howe
4.0
4.5 stars
I'm so impressed with Howe's ability to create such a rich environment full of sensory details. (The desk beneath my hand was pocked and battered like the surface of the moon.) She creates vivid scenes full of sights, scents, tactile information. She also blends her familial relationships and the space she occupies as being both Cantonese and English with themes of language, mythology, and nature. She plays around with so many different forms that speed up and slow down the poem, and a great mixture of narrative and lyric. The order the poems are presented allows for comparison and contrast between each and for the poems to speak to one another.
I'm so impressed with Howe's ability to create such a rich environment full of sensory details. (The desk beneath my hand was pocked and battered like the surface of the moon.) She creates vivid scenes full of sights, scents, tactile information. She also blends her familial relationships and the space she occupies as being both Cantonese and English with themes of language, mythology, and nature. She plays around with so many different forms that speed up and slow down the poem, and a great mixture of narrative and lyric. The order the poems are presented allows for comparison and contrast between each and for the poems to speak to one another.