Pub Date: 05/01/2018
Pages: 96
Publisher: Manic D Press, Inc.
Imprint: Manic D Press, Inc.
ISBN 13: 9781945665080
ISBN 10: 1945665084
Price: / $19.99 CAN$14.95
Category: POETRY / Women Authors
Invisible Gifts
Price: $14.95
Format:
Paperback
About the Book
In her first full-length collection of poems, Win depicts a colorful world imbued with unexpected paradoxes: nature is both comforting and savagely unnerving; love is permanent and fleeting; the accuracy and flaws of memory abound. Her experiences with illness and recovery intertwine with her identity as a Burmese American daughter of immigrant doctors, flowing in poems like “Hands”: My father’s hands, frail birds, shaking wings. / In Burmese, “win” means bright. / Hands that stitched skin together and brought back life. Win’s unique perspective and artful language offer readers insight into how the heart can bend and mend without breaking.