Silk Dress

<p>Lydia Chang‘s poems bravely scale the emotional registers of a Chinese American woman finding her way: from the pain of loss longing and leaving an abusive relationship to the power of reclaiming a self to wryly uncovering the humor of daily tasks. Combining simple wisdom with searing images of childbearing immigration and love Chang navigates the violence of war and its reverberations in the body of a survivor. Here’s a feminist voice born of a full life extraordinarily young and playful at heart. In lines that embody  rage grief laughter love and determination the reader accompanies her on the journey from her childhood in China through a difficult and abusive marriage to the meaningful and fulfilled life personal and professional that she found here in the United States.</p>