Six Rivers - Jenna Le - Bìa Mềm

Jenna Le's debut book is a meditation on love and life as refracted through the waters of six rivers ranging from the mighty Mississippi River to the gloomy River Styx. Inspired by her experiences as a Vietnamese-American woman who earned a degree in mathematics before becoming a physician these poems are sometimes autobiographical sometimes based on flights of imagination. Peopled by a diverse array of characters drawn from the pages of history and mythology (including the computer programmer Ada Lovelace and the sculptor Louise Bourgeois) and displaying familiarity with a broad gamut of forms ranging from the European sonnet to the Asian haibun this sensual and often funny book introduces a strong original new voice in poetry.