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In her second collection of poems, Lee Ann Roripaugh probes themes of mixed-race female identities, evoking the molting processes of snakes and insects who shed their skins and shells as an ongoing metaphor for transformation of self. Intertwining contemporary renditions of traditional Japanese myths and fairy tales with poems that explore the landscape of childhood and early adolescence, she blurs the boundaries between myth and memory, between real and imagined selves. This collection explores cultural, psychological, and physical liminalities and exposes the diasporic arc cast by first-generation Asian American mothers and their second-generation daughters, revealing a desire for metamorphosis of self through time, geography, culture, and myth.

Author

Lee Ann Roripaugh

Publisher

Carbondale: Crab Orchard Review: Southern Illinois University Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780809388844

Subjects

Short Stories, Poetry, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.46 / 5 (64 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14