“yellow crowfoot in the pond,/not lotus, not lily”: Mapping the River, Mapping Voices

Authors

Pamela J. Rader, Georgian Court UniversityFollow

Language

E

Document Type

Article

Abstract

This paper examines the prosody of Chin’s eponymous poem, "The Phoenix Gone, The Terrace Empty," through an eco-critical lens. While it does not dismiss the hybrid cultural influences of the poem, it focuses on the ways the non-human agents, or the figures in the poem’s landscape, “speak.” Poetry, like the poem’s terraced gardens, traces tension between the controlling human forces experienced by the narrating female I personas and the natural world’s affective inclinations.

DOI

10.55917/2154-2171.1080

Recommended Citation

Rader, Pamela J. (2016) "“yellow crowfoot in the pond,/not lotus, not lily”: Mapping the River, Mapping Voices," Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies: Vol. 7, Article 7.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.55917/2154-2171.1080
Available at: https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/aaldp/vol7/iss1/7