40 years, 9 months after 13-14 May 1998. … [Read more...]
Nomad of Salt and Hard Water – 2nd Edition
June 8, 2018 by
This second edition of Nomad of Salt and Hard Water is evidence of how language that is fixed, as in a traditional publication, or unmoored, as in this new and revised edition, is made up of malleable meaning. Over time our relationship to language changes. While Cynthia Dewi Oka’s thematic … [Read more...]
Mixed-Race Superman
June 8, 2018 by
Mixed-Race Superman asks what it means to be mixed race in an increasingly divided world. In an era where a man endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan can sit in the White House, Will Harris considers how two very different supermen—Barack Obama and Keanu Reeves—each transformed the confusion of a mixed … [Read more...]
Salvage
June 7, 2018 by
How do we transform the wreckage of our identities? Cynthia Dewi Oka’s evocative collection answers this question by brimming with what we salvage from our most deep-seated battles. Reflecting the many dimensions of the poet’s life, Salvage manifests an intermixture of aesthetic forms that … [Read more...]
