Magnolia, 木蘭 by Nina Mingya Powles
PBS Autumn Recommendation 2020 Rockingham Press – Alissa Bennett

– Alissa Bennett

Eidolon meditates on the visible and invisible forces of Western civilisation from classical antiquity to present-day America

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Magnolia, 木蘭 by Nina Mingya Powles <br><b>PBS Autumn Recommendation 2020</b> Rockingham Press – Alissa BennettMagnolia, , Nina Mingya Powles first full collection, dwells within the tender, shifting borderland between languages, and between poetic forms, to examine the shape and texture of memories, of myths, and of a mixed race girlhood. Abundant with multiplicities, these poems find profound, distinctive joy in sensory nourishment in the sharing of food, in the recounting of memoirs, or vividly within nature. This is a poetry deeply attuned to the