An Emigrant's Winter New Release Craft-savvy and intelligent

Craft-savvy and intelligent

Amy Strauss Friedman

of opening one’s eyes in a world where every color happens at once

Comparisons open into comparisons like petals from otherworldly flowers

it begins “One word

An Emigrant's Winter New Release Craft-savvy and intelligentPui Ying Wongs An Emigrants Winter offers fresh eyes on both Chinese and American landscapes. Being the stranger gives the poet narrator a visionary lens to see paint almost undone by humidity and time, to identify with a gecko playing dead with its eyes open. The poet is an undercover observer, hiding out front like the gecko, hiding to survive. Boundary crossing poet Pui Ying Wong is always lyrical, no matter where she lights. By contrast with the