{"product_id":"100-chinese-silences-9781934254615","title":"100 Chinese Silences","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoetry. Asian \u0026amp; Asian American Studies. LGBT Studies. Selected as the editors selection in the 2014 NOS Book Contest. There are one hundred kinds of Chinese silence: the silence of unknown grandfathers; the silence of borrowed Buddha and rebranded Confucius; the silence of alluring stereotypes and exotic reticence. These poems make those silences heard. Writing back to an orientalist tradition that has defined modern American poetry  these 100 Chinese silences unmask the imagined Asias of American literature  revealing the spectral Asian presence that haunts our most eloquent lyrics and self- satisfied wisdom. Rewriting poets from Ezra Pound and Marianne Moore to Gary Snyder and Billy Collins  this book is a sharply critical and wickedly humorous travesty of the modern canon  excavating the Asian (American) bones buried in our poetic language.  \"Timothy Yus first book of poems  100 CHINESE SILENCES  brims with sharp  angry  sarcastic and tender poems. He delivers dazzling lines with the deadpan wit and precise timing of Buster Keaton  the stone-faced master of silence. In fact  I had not realized until nowand I mean NOWthat Keaton is really the Timothy Yu of silent films  while Yu is Yu  a slayer of dragons  who knows the millions of sinister and inscrutable ways the Chinese have been silenced in blockbuster films  best-selling novels  Broadway musicals and award-winning poems read on NPR  and closely scrutinized in graduate classes and parking lots of Asian fusion take-out joints with funny names. Not only does Yu make Ezra Pound and Gary Snyder stand on their pointy heads in ways that are illuminating and funny  but he also skewers Jeb Bush  Billy Collins  Mary Oliver  Marianne Moore  and Eliot Weinberger right through their bright yellow Chinese hearts. You got to love a poet who can do that and never miss his mark. I present you with Timothy Yu  noble Chinese archer and master poet.\"John Yau  \"In Timothy Yus hall of 100 \"Chinese\" poetic mirrors  puppies  blossoms  and hobbled feet clatter against the American grain  leaving wet prints as frowning emoji ciphers to rise up with a mighty bitch slap for Asian\/American difference. These poems burn with gloriously wry disdain at the abundance of chinoiserie tinging modernist lineages of geopolitically \"western\" poetic traditions. By striking out at un-self-conscious performances of western cultural sophistication  Yu exposes these voices indebtedness to emptied \"Chinese\" images. I pleasure in his poetrys mythic \"10th century crystal penis \" how it penetrates western imaginative impotencies to see otherwise. Hes sharp  incisive  potty- mouthed  unapologetic  slippery  angry  urbane... His silences are fearsome and knowing. Fuck that yellow-faced hologram of Confucius! I want to hear what Timothy Yu has to say!\"Sueyeun Juliette Lee  \"I cant remember when I last read a book as necessary  and as wickedly fun  as Timothy Yus 100 CHINESE SILENCES. Yu responds to  rewrites  and reforms a whole poetic tradition of Western representations of China and the Chinese  from Ezra Pound to Gary Snyder to Billy Collins. Yu wears his learning lightly  and his various parodies  pastiches  and campy retakes on the poetic tradition balance a love of the poetry hes spent a career studying with a necessary critical edge. Our age demands a re- assessment of old representations of the \"mysterious east \" and Timothy Yu has come through with exactly what we need. 100 CHINESE SILENCES has \"breakthrough book\" written all over it.\"Robert Archambeau\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45275115978805,"sku":"ByrdShop_1934254614","price":98.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781934254615.jpg?v=1780501263","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/100-chinese-silences-9781934254615","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}