Melete - Jennifer Lee Tsai

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Jennifer Lee Tsai's first full-length collection explores family history, intergenerational trauma, love, loss and belonging through the perspective of a second-generation British Chinese identity.�Melete�interweaves dual cultures and heritages through narratives of memory, migration and mysticism across Liverpool, China and Hong Kong. The mythic structure of the book relates to the three original Boeotian Muses - Melete, Mneme and Aoede. Named after the Muse of meditation and contemplation,�Melete�navigates the boundaries between life and art, personhood and subjectivity, states and places of spiritual transcendence and ecstasies. This expansive collection establishes a powerfully distinctive lyric voice in British poetry. Show more