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"Chin's creativity as a poet is undeniable, as she physically shapes poems into images and breaks traditional forms" (International Examiner). Rich with emotional nuance and electric with high-flying verbal experimentation, the poems in Hard Love Province include love songs and elegies. Polyphonic and hard-hitting, they are at once elegant and raw, mournful and wry. From "Nocturnes" Beautiful moon the murderer begins to sing The thief takes off his mask to smell the heliotrope A dirty girl's face against a clear night pane dreams of a strawberry pie at Marie Callendar's A junkie steals asters from a rich man's grave And spreads them on the modest mound of his mother
"Chin's creativity as a poet is undeniable, as she physically shapes poems into images and breaks traditional forms" (International Examiner). Rich with emotional nuance and electric with high-flying verbal experimentation, the poems in Hard Love Province include love songs and elegies. Polyphonic and hard-hitting, they are at once elegant and raw, mournful and wry. From "Nocturnes" Beautiful moon the murderer begins to sing The thief takes off his mask to smell the heliotrope A dirty girl's face against a clear night pane dreams of a strawberry pie at Marie Callendar's A junkie steals asters from a rich man's grave And spreads them on the modest mound of his mother
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