Middle Kingdom

Adrienne Su

“Here is a fresh and profound voice heralding in new cultural bridges in poetry.” —Va Quart “<em>Middle Kingdom</em> is the slippery, hard-to-read territory between languages, cultures, identities—a fluid, confusing boundary zone which is both enriching and embattled. Suburban, Asian-American, at home and exiled in places and tongues, Su negotiates the mercurial new world of cultural commingling in witty, formally assured poems—often in elegantly accomplished forms which themselves add to the layering of cultural reference. This volume is an auspicious, engaging debut, and its pleasures are especially evident in a signature Su poem, ‘In Mexico City’, which delights in a collision of tongues, in the human possibilities conjoined vocabularies reveal.” —Mark Doty “Adrienne Su is so unusual, such a good poet, and has so much to say, that she’s addictive: once you start reading her...

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