Amnion A Queen in Bucks County

Amnion A Queen in Bucks CountyStephanie Sy Quia Amnion is a contemporary lyric epic, journeying from the Philippines to Libya, through France, Spain, and the UK. This debut collection of poems questions keenly and urgently the roots of migration and colonialism, charting what it means to grow up in a family divided by geography, history and language. Managing the consequences of empire, familial discord, personal mythologies and contemporary issues of class and race, these

With pronominal shifts

to speak across “crumpled” time

not a bardlike but a birdlike song […] something like a goldfinch tremolo

mice wrestle each other

and by interrogating the possibility of truthful recollection…

streepte passages aan en putte dankbaar uit het ­gelezene voor zijn eigen dichterschap

gevaarlijk en vol van een duistere en vreugdevolle overvloed

and Puerto Rico

Like fellow-traveler Jackson Mac Low

only a small percentage of them ever found their way into print

Joan of Arc

'they are no black-and-white photocopy