"Am I not the poet of witness? Am I not a disciple of Nellie Sachs and Paul Celan trying to describe the horrors of the Holocaust, meanwhile inventing a new lyric, which questions the possibility/impossibility of poetry after the most heinous episodes of history? Am I not a descendent of Qu Yuan, whose lyric intensity caused him to drown himself in the Mi Lo River in protest? And the descendent of the courageous feminist poet Qiu Jin, who recited a poem on the path to her own beheading?"
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Women authors from the United States20th-century poets from the United StatesFeminists from the United StatesWomen activists from the United StatesWomen from Hong Kong
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A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems (2018)
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