{"title":"Willie Lin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWillie Lin was born in Beijing, China and lives and works in Chicago, IL. Her poems have appeared in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eBennington Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePrairie Schooner\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Threepenny Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, among other journals. She’s the author of the chapbooks \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eLesser Bird of Paradise \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e(MIEL) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eInstructions for Folding\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e (Northwestern University Press), winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePoetry Prize, and has received fellowship and scholarship support from Kundiman and the Summer Workshop Program at the Fine Arts Work Center. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"conversation-among-stones","title":"Conversation Among Stones","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThrough fields of wild grass, restless seascapes, and cities tinged with sand, Willie Lin's debut collection of poetry questions what can remain and what must be pared away in our search for truth and identity.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eConversation Among Stones\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e speaks both to the inanimate—misremembered histories, photographs, the dead—and to the voices in our daily lives that reverberate with disagreement and confusion. Punctuated by doubt and resistant to easy transformations, these poems listen and revise. With striking restraint and simultaneous abundance, these poems attempt to reconcile the desire for answers with the necessity of not knowing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #e92323;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eTurn by turn, this collection catalogs moments of approach, fervor, and strife and carries us into a profound quest for understanding: “And that was one conviction: \/ that we must be to one another \/ what the world is not \/ to us.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eConversation Among Stones\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“Willie Lin's debut poetry collection is everything one wants from a collection whether it be a debut, sophomore, or late career poet's publication. Each poem—I mean each poem—is immediate, energetic, complex yet accessible, and masterfully composed. And I look forward to the next and next and next book.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Martha Rhodes, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Thin Wall\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“This marvelously ordered book by Willie Lin catalogs the ways and whys one comes to be. Her poems burrow slowly out of a fate irrevocable as ‘bees locked in amber,’ emerging hungry for self-imbued purpose, a task of a life that can be shared.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Philip Matthews, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWitch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWillie Lin's poems offer us the twinnedness of could-be and might-have-been with is, the bewildering promises of religious practice, and the vital mystery of one's parents' early lives. These beautiful, solemn poems are radiant with the precision of Lin's language and the clarity of her images.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Éireann Lorsung, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Century\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“The quiet of Willie Lin’s poems is deceptive, masking a profound doubt that she wields like a gleaming knife. The doubt of memory, the doubt of love and knowledge, the doubt of the self, and above all, the doubt of language.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Jennifer Chang, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSome Say the Lark\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThese poems rumble with light and shadow, certainty and smoke. They drift and flow, blossom and burn with ‘ghostly illuminations.’ I am struck by the force and breadth of her lyricism—and I am beyond grateful to share in their devotion: let us all ‘make something of suffering;’ let us all ‘rise, shrug off…form [and] imagine.’” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—R.A. Villanueva, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eReliquaria\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43986112381157,"sku":"","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/ConversationAmongStones_CVR_LG.jpg?v=1679937317"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/collections\/Willie_Lin_PC_Joe_Collins.jpg?v=1679936899","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/collections\/willie-lin.oembed","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}