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Overview
Don't Go Back To Sleep answers the Sufi call to wake up to this life in the here and now where ecstasy serves its summons, inviting us to break out of the mundane quotidian. Timothy Liu winds the clock back to the Nanking Massacre in 1937, then traces its consequences on his family of origin, his mother's mental illness, his father's religious fundamentalism, and Liu's obsessive search for love. As trauma begets trauma the poems slowly accrete, and Liu takes on a legacy of poetic witness where carnal violence ultimately turns to spiritual joy.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780991545407
- ISBN-10: 0991545400
- Publisher: Saturnalia Books
- Publish Date: October 2014
- Dimensions: 7.47 x 5.82 x 0.32 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.28 pounds
- Page Count: 80
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