Pulling A Dragon''S Teeth
ISBN: 9780822980131
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pittsburgh Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Language & Literature ; American Studies;

Set mostly in the China of the recent past, Shao Wei's Pulling a Dragon's Teeth tells the story of a girl's childhood and coming of age, from playing with a folded handkerchief mouse and "my first apple by the Yangtze River" to decrying a "Sunflower Bitch" ("you see how deep how dark how marvelous and amazing/ if you call your name again and again") and allowing that "[i]t is my turn to be quiet/ when you enter me slowly." (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Shao Wei teaches English composition at the College of New Rochelle, Rosa Parks Campus, and Chinese at the China Institute, both in New York City. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Parnassus and Crab Orchard Review , as well as in Asia and Europe. The recipient of numerous honors, she is the author of NineSongs, Females , a poetry collection published in Chinese, and Culture Bird: Looking for Myself in New York , a work of nonfiction.

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