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Yu Xiang comfortably inhabits the negative space between viewer and subject, artist and artwork, the lover and her beloved in this acrobatic, ekphrastic, meditatively-compelling collection. Fiona Sze-Lorrain’s crisp translation invites American readers to experience Yu Xiang’s poetic mastery half a world away from its formative origins in the Shandong province, bringing into focus the voice of one of China’s most celebrated and memorable female voices. “I have a lonely yet / stable life,” Yu admits at one point in the book. “This is my house. If / you happen to walk in, it’s certainly not / for my rambling notes.” Yu Xiang disarms her reader with exacting imagery and pathos in order to tell the aching, unavoidable truth of womanhood in these striking poems. —Dorianne Laux

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  1. Title Page, Copyright Page
  2. pp. 1-4
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-viii
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  1. Foreward: My Children Will Return Me to Solitude
  2. pp. ix-xvi
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  1. I . You’re Simply Chez Moi
  2. pp. 1-18
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  1. II. This Person Is Vanishing
  2. pp. 19-36
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  1. III. Hanging in Mid-Air, My Heart Does not Fall
  2. pp. 37-52
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  1. IV. With a Nose That Always Points Straight Ahead
  2. pp. 53-68
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  1. V. The Rotten and the Fresh, Both Can’t Live Anew
  2. pp. 69-78
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  1. VI. Now I Plan to Retire, As a Harmless Everyman
  2. pp. 79-86
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  1. VII. Our Body Shapes Stick Together
  2. pp. 87-108
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  1. VIII. A Severed Finger That Performs for Dead Spirits
  2. pp. 109-124
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  1. IX. Kept for Oneself
  2. pp. 125-134
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  1. X. If I Can Indeed Have a Background
  2. pp. 135-150
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 151-152
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