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Standing Water: Poems
by Eleanor Chai
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A profound literary debut that recounts a child’s singular story
Since I made you, you may
imagine I set myself on fire—
or better, say: 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 Hanako—titled Head of Sorrow—triggers in the young woman recognition of her mother, a mother erased from her life since childhood.
Thus begins Eleanor Chai’s 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 present—into 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 Hanako—Rodin’s model, a Japanese artist displaced in Europe, the medium through which other artists dream and discover the world.
Standing Water: Poems Eleanor Chai
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This strangeness is specific and has character: it refers to mental illness, of course, but also to race* * * Cyane was not defending what was hers, not avenging a personal injuryPay Less.Chai continually laments her imagination’s inability to bring her mother back: “I thought I could do it: body you forth/ create/make a formal being shapely enough/ to restore you to some life." She further laments an alienating language gap, having spoken Korean in her early childhood while living with her grandparents before returning to her father and brothers who spoke only English—“the evacuation of my native tongue left me raw." Ill-equipped to deal with the evidence of her mother’s mental health, she is both attracted to and repulsed by photographs that were “forebodingly strange, then utterly native." Convictions shift from this unbreachable distance: “Was she actually frightening, or was she scary/ because she was unspeakable, broken,/ fringe and the beginning of me." Chai finds some measure of peace, and though the void can never be overcome, the struggle unfurls as a beautiful catharsis—haunting, suffocating, and stunningly renderedThe narrative collection of poems follows Chais efforts to grapple with the story of her birth and its repercussions, revealed to her only late in lifeThe stage goes dim with her vanishingLeft there strewn across the bay, dismembered forever, her inner membranes move the surface of those waters as light flecks and curves the grape pulp of the swollen convex eye of the Mare I seekBy Larissa PhamTwitter July 29, 2016 Facebook Twitter Email Print (Author photo by Paul Moakley) Impossible now to see the phrase Standing Water and not think of Zika; of the ads on the subway, especially the one in neon blue-and-yellow, with text that appears as if stamped onAbout Us Contact Us Submission Guidelines Subscriber Services Advertising Info Terms of Use Privacy Policy Calls for Info Editorial Calendar Archives Press FAQ PWxyz, LLCMegan rated it really liked it Jul 06, 2016 Its an excellent frame through which to read Chais debut* * * In the myth, he kidnapped her! Javascript is not enabled in your browserIn the book’s devastating title poem, the poet’s father reveals details of his daughter’s origin and her mother’s postpartum depression, and Chai recalls acts of violence from an older brother angry at their mother’s departureChais resemblance to the mother she didnt know she had culminates in a recollection of discovering an old photograph of her parents: I dont have a motherIt 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 surviveChildren, who might seem to belong to a parent but quickly become their ownAfter all, none of us are immune to biologyThis book is hypnotically powerfulDonate * * * As the foreign, displaced nature of Chais identity manifests itself across the surface of the text in carefully chosen modifiers, it also manifests in the presence of Chais body, particularly her face, which appears in the text twofold: in the face of her mother and in that of the model for a Rodin sculpture, Little Hanako, which Chai encounters while in Paris 171bf2437f
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