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West (9781556596568)Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781556596568 Format: Trade paperback (US) Year: 2023 Publisher: Copper Canyon Press Description: National Book Award,2023Longlist * "Elegiac and shot through with righteous anger, this essential collection demands a national reckoning." Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW * "A must have for libraries." Booklist,STARRED REVIEW "A remarkable collection offering history not typically told in textbooks." Library Journal

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781556596568
Format: Trade paperback (US)
Year: 2023
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press


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National Book Award,2023Longlist

* "Elegiac and shot through with righteous anger, this essential collection demands a national reckoning."-Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW

* "A must-have for libraries." -Booklist,STARRED REVIEW

"A remarkable collection offering history not typically told in textbooks."-Library Journal

Punctuated by historical images and told through multiple voices, languages, literary forms and documents, West: A Translationexplores what unites and divides America, drawing a powerful, necessary connection between the completion of the transcontinental railroad and the Chinese Exclusion Act.

In 2018, Utah Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal was commissioned to write a poem commemorating the 150th anniversary of the transcontinental railroad. The result is West: A Translation-an unflinching hybrid collection of poems and essays that draws a powerful, necessary connection between the railroad's completion and the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882-1943). Carved into the walls of the Angel Island Immigration Station, where Chinese migrants to the United States were detained during the Chinese Exclusion Act, is a poem elegizing a detainee who committed suicide. As West translates this anonymous Chinese elegy character by character, what's left is a haunting narrative distilled through the history and lens of transcontinental railroad workers, and a sweeping exploration of the railroad's cultural impact on America. Punctuated by historical images and told through multiple voices, languages, literary forms and documents, We

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