Solar Maximum

Poetry. Asian American Studies. If SOLAR MAXIMUM's speculative fictions are more concerned with presents than futures, its rigorous calm is deeply disquieted, its systematic clarity vying with diffusion, blindness. Is it a reckoning of human success or error that the cannibalistic clouds over Lee's blanched landscapes are full of weather and information? That they break themselves down as a body and communications must? Why poetry otherwise? These are stunning poems written to haunt a house we're in the process of building or, in another light, gently dismantling.--Douglas Kearney A 'great disturbance.' A 'magnetic delivery.' Hold your breath in the bathtub: to 'alter weather patterns.' To belie: a 'longing, ' the 'discrepancy, ' how the light itself accrues a 'stop-motion' brilliance in the moment, or era, before it arrives. How does the sun 'signal' to citizens and non-citizens below? What is happening? Lee has written a book that melts, freezes, then melts again: a set of 'kinetic p