A meditation on history and the imagination that bears witness to acts of genocide and to natural disasters in Ethiopia, Haiti, and Sri Lanka, Of Gods & Strangers interweaves lyrical, arresting accounts of our contemporary world with stories of Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi, last empress of China (1861-1908).
An urgent reminder that poetry can offer us a social consciousness--in my locked mouth an urge--Of Gods & Strangers deftly traces the human dimensions of the great modern machine, looking to recover the present and its people through the past's faulty memory.
About the Author: Author of Half-Lit Houses, TINA CHANG teaches at Sarah Lawrence and serves as Brooklyn Poet Laureate.
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