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Cycling with the Dragon is a personal investigation of family,love, culture, self, and the helpless feeling of smallness. Elaine Woo''s poems take the form of the words that they speak: she forms an o for the buoy that is a child''s safety-raft (found in the solitude of a notebook and Harriet the Spy), and weaves a poem about fearing snakes and dreams into a descending slither.

Woo''s poems weave meaning with form, writing in a pastiche of diverse poetic voices who are small by virtue of age or status (be they women, children, ethnic minorities or the creatures of nature). And like tenacious seeds they break through to reach the sun, to face an abusive parent, bullies, the pain of shyness, envy, or racism.

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      Publisher: Nightwood Editions
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 16/10/2014
      ISBN13: 9780889713017, 978-0889713017
      ISBN10: 889713014

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Cycling with the Dragon is a personal investigation of family,love, culture, self, and the helpless feeling of smallness. Elaine Woo''s poems take the form of the words that they speak: she forms an o for the buoy that is a child''s safety-raft (found in the solitude of a notebook and Harriet the Spy), and weaves a poem about fearing snakes and dreams into a descending slither.

      Woo''s poems weave meaning with form, writing in a pastiche of diverse poetic voices who are small by virtue of age or status (be they women, children, ethnic minorities or the creatures of nature). And like tenacious seeds they break through to reach the sun, to face an abusive parent, bullies, the pain of shyness, envy, or racism.

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