God Complex Elisabeth Houston Chinese writer Lao Yang's Pee

Chinese writer Lao Yang's Pee Poems go deep and dark--with deceptive lightness--into the metaphysical and the social

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absence and bewilderment while allowing associative logic to make poetic leaps in imagination and mood that belie convention

How does a woman of the present century see herself

God Complex Elisabeth Houston Chinese writer Lao Yang's PeeRachael Allen God Complex, Rachael Allen's second collection, is a sweeping and corrosive epic, a narrative poem that tells the story of the breakup of a toxic relationship in the face of the similarly toxic catastrophe of global degradation and disaster. Through the fiery and unstable speaker of the poem, these conditions become fused, lending themselves to the depiction of unutterable thoughts and seams of emotion. Measuring the impact of pollutants