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Standing Water : Poems by Chai, Eleanor, 1967- author is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Standing Water : Poems about?

A profound literary debut that recounts a childs singular story Since I made you, you may imagine I set myself on fire or better, you lit the funeral pyre from ten thousand days away. A young woman in Paris encounters an uncanny presence on a tour of a small museum. A study by Rodin of the dancer Little Hanakotitled Head of Sorrow triggers in the young woman recognition of her mother, a mother erased from her life since childhood. Thus begins Eleanor Chais Standing Water , one of the most remarkable first books of poetry in recent years. It is a journey into the past as well as the presentinto the narrative hidden from the poet since birth, as well as the strategies that she has adopted to survive. It is a journey about how we learn to cope with, to perceive and describe, the world. It is a story about savage privilege and deprivation. Haunting the whole is the figure of the real Little HanakoRodins model, a Japanese artist displaced in Europe, the medium through which other artists dream and discover the world.

Who reads Standing Water : Poems?

Author

Chai, Eleanor, 1967- author

Publisher

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374269487

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

4.08 / 5 (39 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14