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Hey, Marfa: Poems
Contributor(s): Yang, Jeffrey (Author)

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ISBN: 1555978193     ISBN-13: 9781555978198
Publisher: Graywolf Press
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Binding Type: Paperback
Published: October 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American - Asian American
Dewey: 811.6
LCCN: 2018934487
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 7" W x 9" L (0.80 lbs) 184 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Asian
- Ethnic Orientation - Asian
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Price on Product
Review Citations: Library Journal 09/15/2018 pg. 58
 
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An extraordinary lyric and visual meditation on place, nature, and art rippling out from Marfa, Texas

Situated in the outreaches of southwest Texas, the town of Marfa has long been an oasis for artists, immigrants looking for work, and ranchers, while the ghosts of the indigenous and the borders between languages and nations are apparent everywhere. The poet and translator Jeffrey Yang experienced the vastness of desert, township, sky, and time itself as a profound clash of dislocation and familiarity. What does it mean to survive in a physical and metaphorical desert? How does a habitat long associated with wilderness and death become a center for nourishment and art?

Out of those experiences and questions, Yang has fashioned a fascinating, multifaceted work--an anti-travel guide, an anti-Western, a book of last words--that is a lyrical, anthropological investigation into history, culture, and extremity of place. Paintings and drawings of Marfa's landscapes and substations by the artist Rackstraw Downes intertwine with Yang's texts as mutual nodes and lines of energy. Hey, Marfa is a desert diary scaled to music that aspires to emit particles of light.

 
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