Author: Carlina Duan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780299331344
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
In her stunning second collection, Carlina Duan illuminates unabashed odes to lineage, small and sacred moments of survival, and the demand to be fully seen "spangling with light." Tracing familial lore and love, Duan reflects on the experience of growing up as a diasporic, bilingual daughter of immigrants, exploring the fraught complexities of identity, belonging, and linguistic reclamation. Alien Miss brings forth beautifully powerful voices: immigrants facing the Chinese Exclusion Act, the first Chinese American woman to vote, and matriarchal ancestors. The poems in this ambitious collection are immersed in the knotted blood of sisterhood, both celebrating and challenging conceptions of inheritance and homeland. I browse through archives full of men and women with long black hair, throwing themselves into the land. thread of grass. thread of immaculate touch. paper son, or paper daughter. my own papers marked with wings, the pointed tip of an eagle's beak. here, I'm made prey. I pledge allegiance. --Excerpt from "Alien Miss Confronts the Author"
Alien Miss
Author: Carlina Duan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780299331344
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
In her stunning second collection, Carlina Duan illuminates unabashed odes to lineage, small and sacred moments of survival, and the demand to be fully seen "spangling with light." Tracing familial lore and love, Duan reflects on the experience of growing up as a diasporic, bilingual daughter of immigrants, exploring the fraught complexities of identity, belonging, and linguistic reclamation. Alien Miss brings forth beautifully powerful voices: immigrants facing the Chinese Exclusion Act, the first Chinese American woman to vote, and matriarchal ancestors. The poems in this ambitious collection are immersed in the knotted blood of sisterhood, both celebrating and challenging conceptions of inheritance and homeland. I browse through archives full of men and women with long black hair, throwing themselves into the land. thread of grass. thread of immaculate touch. paper son, or paper daughter. my own papers marked with wings, the pointed tip of an eagle's beak. here, I'm made prey. I pledge allegiance. --Excerpt from "Alien Miss Confronts the Author"
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780299331344
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
In her stunning second collection, Carlina Duan illuminates unabashed odes to lineage, small and sacred moments of survival, and the demand to be fully seen "spangling with light." Tracing familial lore and love, Duan reflects on the experience of growing up as a diasporic, bilingual daughter of immigrants, exploring the fraught complexities of identity, belonging, and linguistic reclamation. Alien Miss brings forth beautifully powerful voices: immigrants facing the Chinese Exclusion Act, the first Chinese American woman to vote, and matriarchal ancestors. The poems in this ambitious collection are immersed in the knotted blood of sisterhood, both celebrating and challenging conceptions of inheritance and homeland. I browse through archives full of men and women with long black hair, throwing themselves into the land. thread of grass. thread of immaculate touch. paper son, or paper daughter. my own papers marked with wings, the pointed tip of an eagle's beak. here, I'm made prey. I pledge allegiance. --Excerpt from "Alien Miss Confronts the Author"
Deportation of Alien Criminals, Gunmen, Narcotic Dealers, Defectives, Etc
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Immigration and Naturalization
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Hush, Little Alien
Author: Daniel Kirk
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children
ISBN: 9780786807598
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Based on the bedtime favorite Hush, Little Baby, this adorable board-book edition takes a trip complete with goonie birds and shooting stars as an alien dad sings his little alien a good-night lullaby.
Publisher: Hyperion Books for Children
ISBN: 9780786807598
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Based on the bedtime favorite Hush, Little Baby, this adorable board-book edition takes a trip complete with goonie birds and shooting stars as an alien dad sings his little alien a good-night lullaby.
To Exclude and Expel Alien Fascists and Communists...
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Immigration and Naturalization
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Weekly World News
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Rooted in the creative success of over 30 years of supermarket tabloid publishing, the Weekly World News has been the world's only reliable news source since 1979. The online hub www.weeklyworldnews.com is a leading entertainment news site.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Rooted in the creative success of over 30 years of supermarket tabloid publishing, the Weekly World News has been the world's only reliable news source since 1979. The online hub www.weeklyworldnews.com is a leading entertainment news site.
Communist Activities Among Aliens and National Groups
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communism
Languages : en
Pages : 1024
Book Description
Report of the Botanical Society and Exchange Club of the British Isles
Author: Botanical Society and Exchange Club of the British Isles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Report for 1879-1947
Author: Botanical Society of the British Isles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction
Author: North Carolina. Department of Public Instruction
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1176
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1176
Book Description
Private Relief Bills Regarding Irregular Admission Documents at Time of Entry
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Immigration and Naturalization
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description