Salvage: Poems by Oka, Cynthia Dewi

Salvage: Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780810136298)

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Format: Paperback
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Salvage: Poems by Oka, Cynthia Dewi

Salvage: Poems

$16.95
Salvage: Poems by Oka, Cynthia Dewi

Salvage: Poems

$16.95
Format: Paperback
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How do we transform the wreckage of our identities? Cynthia Dewi Oka's evocative collection answers this question by brimming with what we salvage from our most deep-seated battles. Reflecting the many dimensions of the poet's life, Salvage manifests an intermixture of aesthetic forms that encompasses multiple social, political, and cultural contexts--leading readers to Bali, Indonesia, to the Pacific Northwest, and to South Jersey and Philadelphia.

Throughout it insistently interrogates what it means to reach for our humanity through the guises of nation, race, and gender. Oka's language transports us through the many bodies of fluid poetics that inhabit our migrating senses and permeate across generations into a personal diaspora. Salvage invites us to be without borders.

Author: Cynthia Dewi Oka
ISBN-10: 0810136295
ISBN-13: 9780810136298
Publisher: Triquarterly Books
Language: English
Published: 12/15/2017
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.30h x 6.00w x 0.50d
By Cynthia Dewi Oka
By Cynthia Dewi Oka
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CYNTHIA DEWI OKA is the author of Nomad of Salt and Hard Water. Originally from Bali, Indonesia, she is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee and a recipient of the Fifth Wednesday Journal Editor's Prize in Poetry as well as grants from the Leeway Foundation and Vermont Studio Center. Oka is an alumnus of Voices of Our Nations (VONA) and her work has appeared in the anthologies Dismantle, Read Women, and Revolutionary Mothering. She is based in the greater Philadelphia area, where she works as a community organizer with immigrant and faith communities.

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