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Book Party for HOUSE A
Happy / over the moon / grateful to invite you to celebrate the publication of my first book, HOUSE A (Omnidawn Publishing), selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the Omnidawn Poetry Book Prize.
There will be a reading, a projector with images, some form of favorite childhood snacks, adult drinks, and of course books for sale! Tell your friends!
HOUSE A investigates the tones and textures of immigrant home-building by asking: How is the body inscribed with a cosmology of home and vice versa? Through an assemblage of oblique letters to Mao, incantations of “dream-geometry,” and image-text experiments, the book seeks to render the immersive/obscured feeling of a childhood household where the haunting of history blurs with a constellation of sheltering figures, patterns, and shadows. With evocative and intellectual precision, HOUSE A maps a new poetics of American Home, steeped in longing and rooted by displacement.
book // www.jenniferscheng.com/
poems // http://conjunctions.com/
interview // http://theconversant.org/