Stone faces in Cambodia. Photo by Tammy Ho.
In the second installment of “Asian Traumatic Poetics” (to read part 1, click here), I will look at two more poems published in Cha that discuss…
Asian literature
February 17, 2016
February 10, 2016Chris Beckett, One & Other, by Antony Gormley, Trafalgar Square, London, 2009. In this post and one that will follow next week, I will explore the representation of personal trauma in…
January 22, 2016News, Reviews, and InterviewsWe’re sad to report that Mexican Amercian poet Francisco X. Alarcón died of cancer last week. His poetry explored Chicano life in the US. He contributed a poem to WLT’…
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