<p><b>Nanci Lee’s debut explores 4th Century Su Hui’s palindrome of longing. Hsin arises from an ancient Chinese ethical philosophy, less a set of moral standards than an appeal to tune.<\/b><\/p> <p><i>Heart-mind<\/i> and <i>nothingness<\/i> are fair English translations of <i>Hsin<\/i>, but their tidiness risks losing some of the sharper, wider sides of absence and appetite. As a historical process, according to Hang Thaddeus T’ui-Chieh, <i>Hsin<\/i> frustrates, \u00ab\u00a0the psychological fragmentation and compartmentalization of the West.\u00a0\u00bb<\/p> <p>Born to a Syrian father and a Chinese mother, who gave her up for adoption, Lee explores her origins in a compendium of poem fragments where form embraces the process of its unfolding. These are Koan-like poems, resonant with tones at turns ageless and contemporary; <i>Hsin<\/i> holds silence in ways that both claim and keep at bay.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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