Le\'s furious and steeled voice leaves nothing unturned, propelling these poems through explorations on displacement, womanhood, the body and its endured violences, by confronting a History as tenuous and elusive as the ghosts it conjures.
She has created her own version of the Ark, one where the whale, forgotten in the original, is now carried as \'a child of immigrants, like me.\' In these tender, earnest yet fierce poems, Le does not reinvent myth, but expands it to include our most damned.
Le\'s furious and steeled voice leaves nothing unturned, propelling these poems through explorations on displacement, womanhood, the body and its endured violences, by confronting a History as tenuous and elusive as the ghosts it conjures