Transpacific Poetics: Ideographic and Prosodic Transpositions in Li-Young Lee’s “Persimmons” and Marilyn Chin’s “Summer Sleep”.

Through intercultural poetics, the speakers in “Persimmons” and “Summer Sleep” chart their journeys from “foreign” pupils disciplined by English authorities to bilingual wordsmiths. Lee’s speaker, punished by a schoolmarm for his inability to differentiate between English words that look alike, late...

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Published in:	University of Toronto Quarterly Vol. 88; no. 2; pp. 246 - 263
Main Authors:	KING-KOK CHEUNG, QINGHUA HUANG
Format:	Article
Published:	University of Toronto Press spring2019
Subjects:	Poetry (Literary form) Linguistics Chinese poetry Comparative studies English language
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