{"product_id":"in-taking-apart-a-kaleidoscope-paperback","title":"In Taking Apart a Kaleidoscope - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAdam Zhou\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen can you tell a book of poems is really working? For me, it's when the poems provide revolutions on themes--like the tiniest clink of a kaleidoscope. Look at how Adam Zhou recognizes what stays with us, how \"the landscape will remain sullen \/ still dressed in a sullen light\" and yet the people are always leaving and returning, wounded or memory or truly breathing, even in stillness. Zhou's lyrics are a personal history unfolding before us. In a world where poems can shatter us in the best way, \u003cem\u003eIn Taking Apart a Kaleidoscope \u003c\/em\u003ereminds us that \"there's something new if your heart hasn't stopped\"--that we must dissect whatever comes up and hold it to light.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--Carly Joy Miller\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn Taking Apart a Kaleidoscope \u003c\/em\u003eis an arrangement of burning flowers. Adam Zhou has mastered the narrative of displacement. A world where people and objects are cloaked in words with multiple meanings. A house where \"locks prefer not to accept keys.\" Through these poems a young speaker reconciles collisions of language, culture, and family. With great attention to craft, Zhou finds his voice in a fractured world. --\"I'll collect the jagged pieces. Put them in a plastic bag.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--Robert Carr\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdam Zhou, a Chinese national, was born and raised in the Philippines. He won the Kathy Carlson and Emily Stauffer Award from \u003cem\u003eApogee\u003c\/em\u003e, and was one of ten Asian American high school writers included in \u003cem\u003eHyphen \u003c\/em\u003emagazine's Youth Poetry Folio for National Poetry Month in 2019. He is the founding editor of \u003cem\u003eThe McKinley Review\u003c\/em\u003e, a literary journal based in the international community of the Philippines and focusing on the natural environment. When this collection is launched, Zhou will be a high school senior at the International School Manila.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 60\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.14 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54054670532915,"sku":"9781945023248","price":23.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/0k92f51OYF9781945023248.webp?v=1789030362","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/in-taking-apart-a-kaleidoscope-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}