Winner of the 2008 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize Finalist for the 2008 Asian American Literary Award Rita Wong\'s new collection of poems explores how ecological crises relate to the injustices of our international political landscape.
She is instructive without being pedantic, and thought-provoking while still calling forth humour and beauty..
Forage is accompanied by marginalia, Chinese characters and photos that give depth to the political context in which most of Wong\'s poems are situated.
In her words, the next shift may be the biggest one yet, the union of the living, from mosquito to manatee to mom.
Querying the relations between writing and other forms of action, Wong seeks a shift in consciousness through poems that bespeak a range of responses to our world: anger, protest, anxiety, bewilderment, hope and love.
Winner of the 2008 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize Finalist for the 2008 Asian American Literary Award Rita Wong\'s new collection of poems explores how ecological crises relate to the injustices of our international political landscape
