There are one hundred kinds of Chinese silences: the silence of the unknown grandfathers; the silence of borrowed Buddha and rebranded Confucius; the silence of alluring stereotypes and exotic reticence...
New Pages reviews Timothy Yu’s 100 Chinese Silences
There are one hundred kinds of Chinese silences: the silence of the unknown grandfathers; the silence of borrowed Buddha and rebranded Confucius; the silence of alluring stereotypes and exotic reticence...
Foreword Reviews reviews 100 Chinese Silences
Matt Sutherland of the Foreword Reviews recommends 100 Chinese Silences by Timothy...
Hyphen Magazine reviews 100 Chinese Silences
Yu’s 100 Chinese Silences is a vital voice among this chorus that is growing louder by the minute speaking, singing and shouting the new sound of what it means to be Asian in America...
Boston Review reviews 100 Chinese Silences
At times, the irony can become difficult to decipher. Indeed, his poems hold multiple meanings, opening a much-needed conversation about how Asian American voices are simultaneously appropriated and silenced....
Cordite Poetry Review reviews 100 Chinese Silences
Yu’s 100 Chinese Silences is committed, thorough and relentless, and delivers a clear message...
Galatea Resurrects reviews 100 Chinese Silences
The intent here seems clear enough: Timothy Yu is sick of the orientalist uses made of Chinese culture and its poetry by ‘western’ poets and others that instrumentally enable their own poetries...
Foreword Reviews reviews 100 Chinese Silences
Timothy Yu set off on a one-hundred poem crusade to heap ridicule and brilliant insight at Ezra Pound, Gary Snyder, Billy Collins, and other purveyors of Far East falsities...
100 Chinese Silences named on Split This Rock list
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Adam Tipps Weinstein wins 2014 NOS Book Contest
Adam Tipps Weinstein wins the 2014 NOS Book Contest as selected by Fanny Howe...