A Portrait of the Self As Nation: New and Selected Poems

Spanning thirty years of dazzling work—from luminous early love lyrics to often-anthologized Asian American identity anthems, from political and subversive hybrid forms to feminist manifestos—A Portrait of the Self as Nation is a selection from one of America’s most original and vital voices. Direct and sometimes confrontational, Marilyn Chin’s forceful approach to her signature themes of cultural assimilation, feminism, and identity is necessary and stylistically masterful.FROM “QUIET THE DOG, TETHER THE PONY”In the land of missing pronounsSun is a continuous performanceAnd we my love are nothing