Nothing Like Freedom: Poems
Author: Nellie Wong
Publisher: HongHongLookLook: 2024
Format: Paperback
Condition: New
ISBN: 9798991400800
DESCRIPTION
"To dream in oceans of stories, listening to echoes from rituals, ancient and new."Poet Nellie Wong celebrates her ninetieth birthday with a specially curated book of poetry, exploring themes of family, art, activism and aging. Marking her 50th anniversary as a published poet, Nothing Like Freedom is Nellie Wong's fifth collection of poetry, following Breakfast Lunch Dinner (2012), Stolen Moments (1997), Death of Long Steam Lady (1986), and Dreams of Harrison Railroad Park (1977).
"As she marks her 90th birthday, the poet and activist Nellie Wong has given us a gift: a new collection of poems that bridges the decades of her remarkable career, with work that spans the 1970s to the present. In Nothing Like Freedom, Wong shares with us a lifetime of memories."
- TIMOTHY YU, Martha Meier Renk-Bascom Professor of Poetry and professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
"These poems are vivid postcards that bring you right there as if standing over Nellie's shoulder as she writes/remembers/relives. They are moving slices of life that we get to partake of and in, voyeurs sopping up all the minute, richly, savoring details."
- OPAL PALMER ADISA, Author of "The Storyteller's Return"
"For the last fifty years, Nellie Wong's poetry has been sounding clarion calls of truth and represents an essential voice in American literature."
- KAZIM ALI, Author of "The Voice of Sheila Chandra"
"These poems are the work of a steady hand, so many wonderful lines that take you to unexpected places. I will leave them for you to discover, this collection is a treasure."
- KIM SHUCK, 7th Poet Laureate of San Francisco Emerita; Author of "Pick a Garnet to Sleep In"
AUTHOR
Wong was born in Oakland, California to immigrant parents. Her father had immigrated to Oakland in 1912. Wong is a Chinese American poet, feminist, and socialist who has organized and participated in activist groups working to create better conditions for women, workers, and minorities.