Grappling Hook

by Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang

Overview

Taking its title from Tomas Tranströmer, Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang’s Grappling Hook sifts the debris of the twenty-first century for insights into identity, desire, and the everyday struggles inherent to motherhood. In doing so, she presents vivid portraits of the joys and perils of marriage, the evolving fight for social justice in a world divided by inequity, and the uncertain future that’s left for children of the digital age. Grappling Hook is an impressive display of Sarah Yi –Mei Tsiang’s considerable poetic gifts, and a love letter to those who are making meaningful change in unprecedented times.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781990293047
Publisher:	Palimpsest Press
Publication date:	04/15/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang is the author of the poetry books Status Update (2013), which was nominated for the Pat Lowther Award, and the Gerald Lampert award winning Sweet Devilry (2011). Her work has been longlisted (2018) and shortlisted (2019) for the CBC Poetry Prize, as well as the UK's Forward Award (2020), and has appeared in anthologies such as Best of the Best Canadian Poetry. She currently works as the Poetry Editor for Arc Poetry Magazine and the Creative Director for Poetry In Voice. 

Table of Contents

Two Truths and a Lie 9

You can't see me, it's dark 10

Angstrom 11

12 13

Globe 25

Math for girls 27

The dreams of people who call 911 to complain after an Amber Alert 29

Dick pics 30

The Far Right Marches on Charlottesville, 2017 33

Wellness Check 34

Cutting 36

Catching flight 40

She just wants attention 41

How to fill the void inside you 42

My Boy 43

#MeToo 47

Seven dreams about my son 48

Spawning Grounds 50

His True Self 51

How to leave your child at daycare for the first time 52

Rescue 53

Portrait of a marriage 55

I just want to be a good day 56

Come in the speaking silence of a dream 57

Cottage Visits 58

Worms 59

Dispatches 61

Make lemonade 62

Seat 8b 63

First Contact 64

In order to become men 65

Notes 67

Acknowledgements 69

About the Author 71

Editorial Reviews

"Sarah Tsiang dissects our domestic intimacies with such a gorgeous blade. Funny, mature, unnerving, and tender, the poems in this book accomplish a brilliant balance between edges of love and violence."—Sadiqa de Meijer, author of The Outer Wards

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