Rhapsody In Plain Yellow Pa

by Chin,Marilyn

• ISBN13: 9780393324532
• ISBN10: 0393324532
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

Rhapsody in Plain Yellow is a collection of songs that dance across the terrain of emotional nuance and postmodern experimentation: from homages to Li Po to polyphonic samplings of Emily Dickinson. Marilyn Chin tells of the trials of immigration, of exile, of thwarted interracial love, and of social injustice. Some poems recall the Confucian "Book of Songs," while others echo the African American blues tradition and Western railroad ballads. Personal revelations open up to a universal cry for compassion and healing in this powerful and elegant collection -- sophisticated yet moving, hard-hitting yet refined. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Marilyn Chin is the author of The Phoenix Gone, The Terrace Empty, winner of the PEN/Josephine Miles Award, and Dwarf Bamboo. Two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, two Fulbright fellowships, the Stegner fellowship, four Pushcart prizes, and the Mary Roberts Rinehart Award count among her many honors. Born in Hong Kong, Chin teaches at San Diego State University

Table of Contents

Blues on Yellow	p. 13
That Half Is Almost Gone	p. 17
The Colonial Language Is English	p. 20
Take a Left at the Waters of Samsara	p. 22
Chinese Quatrains (The Woman in Tomb 44)	p. 24
Emilies: Aria for My Mother	p. 27
Millennium, Six Songs	p. 30
Cauldron	p. 34
Broken Chord Sequence	p. 39
Altar (#3)	p. 39
Hospital Interlude	p. 40
Hospital in Oregon	p. 41
Song of the Giant Calabash	p. 42
Hong Kong Fathersong	p. 44
Get Rid of the X	p. 45
How Deep Is the River of God?	p. 46
I Am Waiting	p. 47
Libations, Song 10	p. 48
Variations on an Ancient Theme: The Drunken Husband	p. 49
Bold Beauty	p. 52
The True Story of Mortar and Pestle	p. 53
The True Story of Mr. and Mrs. Wong	p. 55
The Cock's Wife	p. 56
Where We Live Now (Vol. 3, #4)	p. 57
Blues on Yellow (#2)	p. 67
Horse Horse Hyphen Hyphen	p. 69
Tonight while the Stars Are Shimmering	p. 72
Bad Date Polytich, Eight Poems	p. 75
Bad Date	p. 75
Family Restaurant (#1)	p. 76
Family Restaurant (#2)	p. 77
Empathy	p. 78
Blues on Yellow (#3)	p. 79
Folk Song Revisited	p. 80
Ohio/Ohio	p. 81
So, You Fucked John Donne	p. 82
Identity Poem (#99)	p. 83
To Pursue the Limitless	p. 85
Summer Sonatina	p. 88
Horseyear	p. 92
Rhapsody in Plain Yellow	p. 96
Notes	p. 105
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