Rhapsody in Plain Yellow (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Marilyn Chin
- First Published: 2002
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Family or family life, United States or Americans, Love or romance, Ethnic groups, Immigration or emigration, Women, Death or dying, Minorities, Single people, Bereavement or grief, Asian Americans, China or Chinese people, Chinese Americans, Aging
Like her two other remarkable and prize-winning books of poetry, Marilyn Chin’s Rhapsody in Plain Yellow is a volume of finely crafted poems characterized by brilliant imagery, intricate personal and sociopolitical turns of thought, and a richly allusive style. With sensitivity, with eloquence, and frequently in anger, she expresses the woe of being a woman, the quandary of being bicultural, and the bereavement of a great love rapt away by death. The title of the book itself is an indicator of Chin’s complex and allusive sensibility. The image of yellow in the title alludes...
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