Cleave Poems
Book - 2021
"In her debut collection, Tiana Nobile grapples with the history of transnational adoption, both her own from South Korea and the broader, collective experience. In conversation with psychologist Harry Harlow's monkey experiments and utilizing fragments of a highly personal cache of documents from her own adoption, these poems explore dislocation, familial relationships, and the science of love and attachment. A Rona Jaffe Foundation award winner, Nobile is a glimmering new talent. Cleave attempts to unknot the complexities of adoptee childhood, revealing a nature of opposites-'the child cleaved to her mother / the child cleaved from her mother'-while reckoning with the histories that make us"--
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- Genres
- Autobiographical poetry
Poetry - Published
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Spartanburg, SC :
Hub City Press
2021.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- vii, 61 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBN
- 9781938235757
- I..
- Moon Yeong Shin
- /'maTHar/
- What orchard are you from ?
- Abstract
- Mother of Letters
- St. Rose of Lima
- The Night I Dreamed of Water
- Where are you really from?
- Abstract
- Mother of Rock
- Did you know
- Abstract
- Mother of Cloth
- Abstract
- Child's Pre-Flight Report
- II..
- /'migrant/
- The Stolen Generation
- The Last Straw
- Operation Babylift
- Fire and Rice
- III..
- Abstract
- Interview with Dr. Harlow
- Abstract
- Mother of Wood
- Abstract
- To Whom It May Concern:
- /mun/
- The Courier
- Mother of Wire
- 'Lost' first languages leave permanent mark on the brain, new study reveals
- Petals
- Father, Harry (Holy Maker)
- Underwater Falsetto
- /'manki/
- Personal Fiction
- Harlow's Monkey
- Revisionist History
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
