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Motherlands
Weijia Pan
This month’s Paws for Poetry article is by our friends at Milkweed Editions.
Chosen by Louise Glück for the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, this engrossing debut interrogates history, identity, and the power of poetry to elucidate both.
Motherlands opens with a child drawn early to poetry. “In summer I write. Two lines at a time, two vying souls / running up the wall.” The collection follows this speaker-poet through a childhood in post-Maoist China and an eventual move to the United States, laying bare cultural and linguistic tensions in both historical and modern settings. He cites Chinese laborers toiling in American factories—an echo of the brutalities endured by those who constructed the Transatlantic Railroad—and speaks to anxieties around belonging, assimilation, and identity. “If I forget one character a day,” he writes. “I will have forgotten Chinese / by the end of 2042.”
In these attentive, imaginative poems, Weijia Pan questions the artist’s duty—his duty—as a chronicler of truth, especially through issues of displacement and global injustice. What can the poet do but observe? And yet, in unpacking ancestral traumas connected to Maoist China and modern-day bigotry exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, he still finds himself turning to art as a way to understand both the self and the world at large. Through elegant juxtapositions, Pan crafts an emotional world that is at once regional and universal—Li Bai and Du Fu sit alongside Glenn Gould and Sviatoslav Richter, pepper used to bless new roads is repurposed in the mace used against protesters, two languages compete on a single tongue. Lyrical and visionary, this collection embodies poetry’s capacity to ground us, teach us, and change us.
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America's Test Kitchen:
25th Anniversary Cookbook
Welcome back to cookbook corner. This month's book is America's test kitchen! 500 recipes that changed the way America cooks, 25th anniversary edition. This book is packed with the recipes we all love and a lot more from all over the world!
You've heard me say Joy of Cooking is my favorite cookbook, but this one is a very close second. With these two and a good bread book, you'll be set! Nutrition facts, conversions and equivalents are included. It's a beautifully large full cookbook. If you love to cook and explore food, this one's for you! Check it out next time you’re in Beagle and Wolf.
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