Cheng, Jennifer S.: Moon: Letters, Maps, Poems

Moon: Letters, Maps, Poems by Jennifer S. Cheng (Tarpaulin Sky Press, paperback) Publication Date: May 1, 2018 Publisher Marketing: Poetry. California Interest. Asian & Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. Winner of the Tarpaulin Sky Book Award, chosen by Bhanu Kapil. Mixing fable and fact, extraordinary and ordinary, Jennifer S. Cheng's hybrid collection, MOON: LETTERS, MAPS, POEMS, draws on various Chinese mythologies about women, particularly that of Chang'E (the Lady in the Moon), uncovering the shadow stories of our myths—with the belief that there is always an underbelly. MOON explores bewilderment and shelter, destruction and construction, unthreading as it rethreads, shedding as it collects. "What are the secret aspects of a book, which cannot be spoken of and that unfold in ways that nobody can describe to us in advance? Can radical change be read as a 'map of the body in motion'? If reading is a form of pilgrimage, then Cheng gives us its charnel ground events, animal