In Sleep and Wordless: A Review of ‘chengyu: chinoiserie’ by Leung Rachel Ka Yin - The Adroit Journal
The sensation of finishing Leung Rachel Ka Yin’s pamphlet, chengyu: chinoiserie (Hedgehog Poetry Press), is akin to emerging from a kind of dream—feverish and disorientated, you are often unsure of where you are or how much time has passed. There are parts of the dream that you can remember with startling clarity, yet other…
Review May 14, 2020 by Lucy Thynne 0 The sensation of finishing Leung Rachel Ka Yin ’s pamphlet, chengyu: chinoiserie ( Hedgehog Poetry Press ), is akin to emerging from a kind of dream—feverish and disorientated, you are often unsure of where you are or how much time has passed. There are parts of the dream that you can remember with startling clarity, yet other parts haze into a memory which already feels distant. The same can be said of Leung’s poems: each has a quality of heady intensity; this is a dreamlike world that the reader experiences through every one of their senses. Just as you m
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