A poet's journey through mythical Vietnam, contemporary America, and the enduring landscape of memory.
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Breaking the Map calls itself a book of poetry, but in reality it's Kim-An Lieberman carrying, by hand, words, images, songs, stories and laying them in front of the reader. And whatever forty-year-old image we might still remember from Vietnam or America that is part real and part television, she makes whole, new, and vibrant. She makes us a witness more than reader. --Shawn Wong
Kim-An Lieberman's gorgeous poems don't just map human experience, they crawl through its dust, searching. Her subjects are sometimes mythical, fanciful--a lover sprouts wings, a water buffalo arrives in the suburbs--but even the mundane is magnifed by language that is startling, and exquisitely precise, that I couldn't put out of my mind. The opening Vietnam sequence is a perfectly-pitched love song to a country 'glinting just beyond the edge of vision.' Lieberman's ear is unerring, her hunger insatiable. --Kathleen Flenniken
Simply put, this is a wonderful first collection. Kim-An Lieberman really has broken the map. Each poem asks us to stand on the edge of things and wave hello--or good-bye--as if it matters. This is a geography that demands attention. --Samuel Green
Kim-An Lieberman's gorgeous poems don't just map human experience, they crawl through its dust, searching. Her subjects are sometimes mythical, fanciful--a lover sprouts wings, a water buffalo arrives in the suburbs--but even the mundane is magnifed by language that is startling, and exquisitely precise, that I couldn't put out of my mind. The opening Vietnam sequence is a perfectly-pitched love song to a country 'glinting just beyond the edge of vision.' Lieberman's ear is unerring, her hunger insatiable. --Kathleen Flenniken
Simply put, this is a wonderful first collection. Kim-An Lieberman really has broken the map. Each poem asks us to stand on the edge of things and wave hello--or good-bye--as if it matters. This is a geography that demands attention. --Samuel Green
About the Author
Kim-An Lieberman holds a Ph.D. in English, specializing in Vietnamese American literature, from the University of California-Berkeley. Her poems and essays have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, ZYZZYVA, CALYX, Threepenny Review, and the anthology AsianAmerica.Net: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Cyberspace. She lives in Seattle.
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I'm not typically into poetry, but was given this book as a gift. It is excellent. I pick it up from time to time now and get something new out of it every time.
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