Tan Lin; Lotion Bullwhip Giraffe

Series No.: NAP 26

ISBN: 978-1557132581, Pages: 175

American Literature, Poetry

A Sun & Moon title.

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In these highly original poems, the young American Chinese poet, Tan Lin, "sets tooth on the treetops" as language twists and tumbles over itself like a "Chickory Lickery Bock." In this marvelous celebration of language, Tan Lin explores "a meditation backwards," inventing new poetic structures and forms as he creates a dialogue between himself and the significant other Reader.

Tan Lin's work has appeared in Lingo, The Village Voice, First Intensity, New American Writing, Hambone, Central Park, Talisman, Asian American Writing, and the anthologies Premonitions: The Kaya Anthology of North American Asian Poetry and The Gertrude Stein Awards 1993-1994. He teaches at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.