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The problem of deer by Lydia T. Liu

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In Lydia T. Liu‘s The problem of deer, a colonial administration is both augured and commemorated as the “place that’s also a problem.” In a parallel register, the “almost closure of the mouth” does the work of a gate.  What emerges, what slips through? Poems, testimonies, compressed thoughts, a dream in which national borders no longer exist, but also colors, pliable anthropologies of all kinds.

–Bhanu Kapil

 

Let Lydia Liu’s The problem of deer take you on a multisensory journey where you discover the loves and losses of a descendant of diaspora.  Liu intricately interweaves poems containing Chinese, German, and Catalan on a canvas of English to paint treks of longing and desire, meaning and myth, being home and being a stranger in the realms of earth and sky. Sip these poems slowly for a protracted delight because “the world today is half ocean half construction site” and “There is still time/to chose elation.”  Encounter poems whose waves of meaning ricochet, overlap, and haunt you. That ache of nostalgia remains after finishing The problem of deer, fortunately you can read it again to assuage the pain.

–Yeva Johnson, author of Analog Poet Blues

 

This is a short book that contains thousands of books. It’s a template that holds meaning like a cave holds luggage or a hotel room turns into a cave. Language is unstable Liu tells us but you know it’s a pretty marvelous tool. The problem of deer is for sure a marvel maybe like the poems Marguerite Duras wrote while she was waiting for a film. Or even better like tiny seahorse toys spiraling in water you just watch those babies grow!

–Eileen Myles

 

 

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The problem of deer

by Lydia T. Liu

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The problem of deer is a lyrical exploration of the transitory landscapes that shape a diasporic experience. It traces the shifting cartographies of the heart, moving from the dissonances of history and geographical origins to the multiplicities of desire and language. These poems find beauty in their gentle yet persistent interrogations—through the voice of a young peripatetic.

Lydia T. Liu is an award-winning poet and multidisciplinary researcher, whose work evokes diasporic consciousness through a fusion of lyric and experimental poetics. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, Cimarron Review, Berkeley Poetry Review, Poetry Society of America, and elsewhere. A graduate of Princeton University and University of California Berkeley, she teaches at Princeton and lives in New York City. The problem of deer is her first chapbook.

 

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