{"product_id":"lee-nanci-hsinpb","title":"Lee, Nanci: Hsin","description":"\u003cp\u003eBrick Books, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: April 15, 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: Winner of the 2023 J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award * 2023 Maxine Tynes Nova Scotia Poetry Award Finalist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNanci Lee's debut explores 4th Century Su Hui's palindrome of longing. Hsin arises from an ancient Chinese ethical philosophy, less a set of moral standards than an appeal to tune.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeart-mind\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003enothingness\u003c\/i\u003e are fair English translations of \u003ci\u003eHsin\u003c\/i\u003e, but their tidiness risks losing some of the sharper, wider sides of absence and appetite. As a historical process, according to Hang Thaddeus T'ui-Chieh, \u003ci\u003eHsin\u003c\/i\u003e frustrates, \"the psychological fragmentation and compartmentalization of the West.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn to a Syrian father and a Chinese mother, who gave her up for adoption, Lee explores her origins in a compendium of poem fragments where form embraces the process of its unfolding. These are Koan-like poems, resonant with tones at turns ageless and contemporary; \u003ci\u003eHsin\u003c\/i\u003e holds silence in ways that both claim and keep at bay.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40604998238231,"sku":"9781771315722","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/ibg.common.titledetail_abe3d117-9331-4ddc-9ade-21fbd8b63506.gif?v=1689804202","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/lee-nanci-hsinpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}