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A Bestiary Paperback – April 15, 2016

by Lily Hoang (Author)
4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 44 ratings
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    Cleveland State University Poetry Center
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"In this genre-transcending work, selected by Wayne Koestenbaum as the winner of the 2015 Cleveland State University Poetry Center s Essay Collection, Hoang (Unfinished) relentlessly teases apart mythology, familial memory, and investigative essay into searing fragments, then weaves them into a dazzling swarm. Hoang models her postcolonial bestiary on the Chinese zodiac A pack of dogs. A swarm of insects. A mischief of rats./ You desire the human equivalent and uses it to represent such concepts as fidelity, beauty, and the disgust of desire. In doing so, she confronts such topics as feminine subjection, familial suffering due to assimilation ( Vietnamese women suffer better than all other people, my mother used to tell me ), and a sister s addiction and death with a precision that is by turns vulnerable and justly incensed. Hoang subverts the moralizing tendencies of folklore to form a new hybrid mythology that, like all belief systems, reassures the believer and the reader that human vulnerability is undergirded by a sense of mutual care. In order to join the collective, you must un-become, lose your face and skin, eject your identity, she writes. This is called belonging. In Hoang s mutinous cosmos, time warps and dilates to link ruptures between games and reality, the living and the dead, pain internalized and sickness expressed. This collection is both ravishing and ravished." -- Publisher's Weekly --Publishers Weekly

About the Author

Lily Hoang's books include A BESTIARY (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2016), THE EVOLUTIONARY REVOLUTION (Les Figues, 2010), and CHANGING (Fairy Tale Review Press, 2008), recipient of a PEN Open Books Award. She has two novels forthcoming: Old Cat Lady and The Book of Martha and she co-edited the anthology THE FORCE OF WHAT'S POSSIBLE: WRITERS ON ACCESSIBILITY AND THE AVANT-GARDE (Nightboat Books, 2015). She teaches in the MFA program at New Mexico State University, where she is Associate Department Head. She serves as Prose Editor at Puerto del Sol and Non-Fiction Editor at Drunken Boat.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cleveland State University Poetry Center (April 15, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 156 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0996316744
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0996316743
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.25 x 8 inches
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