Other Side of Ocean - by Xiaoqiu Qiu (Paperback)

About the Book

"From the Author: 'My poems aim to explore spiritual exile and the meaning of home in an age of globalization and instability. I am interested in exploring how landscape can be expressed in multiple levels: linguistically, through poetry of multilingualism and concreteness, such as meshing the ideogrammic meaning of Chinese characters with English texts; dialogically, through internal landscapes reflecting both the poet and the perceived; and constellationally, through aligning space and time around a landscape to decenter the hegemony of nations and memory. I believe landscape is that which gives us identity without dividing us. The genius loci is that which imbues us with ingenuity. After all, the earth is contiguous, and not the national borders.'"--

Book Synopsis

" Long before it features an image, language is a landscape, a primordial utterance and abode. Xiaoqiu Qiu, unique among poets of the rising generation, gives voice to such utterance and makes of his visions a timely and timeless abode." -- Donald Revell

Review Quotes

"Thematically rich, formally novel, Other Side of Ocean is a work of considerable artistry and heralds Qiu as an important new voice."--John Keene, author of Punks: New & Selected Poems

"Xiaoqiu Qiu, unique among poets of the rising generation, gives voice to such utterance and makes of his visions a timely and timeless abode."--Donald Revell, author of Canandaigua

About the Author

Winner of the 2024 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize