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Overview

From “Abalone” to “Zooxanthellae,” Jeffrey Yang’s debut poetry collection is full of the exhilarating colors and ominous forms of aquatic life. But deeper under the surface are his observations on war, environmental degradation, language, and history, as a father—troubled by violence and human mismanagement of the world—offers advice to a newborn son.

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Overview

From “Abalone” to “Zooxanthellae,” Jeffrey Yang’s debut poetry collection is full of the exhilarating colors and ominous forms of aquatic life. But deeper under the surface are his observations on war, environmental degradation, language, and history, as a father—troubled by violence and human mismanagement of the world—offers advice to a newborn son.

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Publishers Weekly

Yang's debut is as full of surprises as it is full of fish. Most of its 60-odd short poems, arranged alphabetically, take their names from aquatic creatures: "Orca," "Parrotfish," "Nudibranch." Though he does incorporate oceanology and fish biology ("Scientists exploit/ the mormyrid's unique electrical/ properties to test water"), Yang also brings in Chinese classical poetry, Hindu myth, "intelligent design/ and think tanks" and political quips ("The U.S. is a small fish/ with a false head"). He is no less attentive to modern history and contemporary, Internet-based events: one poem praises the Italian revolutionary hero Garibaldi; the next explains, "Google is a sea of consciousness." Another thread has to do with East and West-and the oceans between. Yang's pithy free verse insists on entanglements among the literary arts and the natural sciences, as among East Asian, South Asian, European and American literatures: "Triggerfish" includes Hawaiian proverbs, Catholic philosophy, comparative mythography and that inveterate comparer, the poet Ezra Pound, always "testing the overtones." Those who read the collection quickly may find it witty but gimmicky; those who bring more attention will take more away from this rare first book that combines a simple theme (poems as sea life, the book as their tank) with clear, sharp thought at the level of sentence and line. (Nov.)

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781555975135
  • Publisher: Graywolf Press
  • Publication date: 10/28/2008
  • Pages: 80
  • Sales rank: 710,454
  • Product dimensions: 5.80 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 0.20 (d)

Meet the Author

Jeffrey Yang is a poet, translator, and editor at New Directions Publishing Corp. He is the translator of East Slope by Su Shi, and his poetry has appeared in The Nation, Tin House, and elsewhere. He lives in Beacon, New York.

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