Jenna Le
Manatee Lagoon - Poems
Manatee Lagoon - Poems
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Jenna Le's third full-length collection, Manatee Lagoon, combines traditional form and contemporary subject matter, including social media comment threads, Pap smears, eclipse glasses, and gun violence. The book explores the experience of being the daughter of Vietnamese refugees in today's tense and hostile America, and is a treasury of voices dedicated to Kate Spade, John Ashbery, and Uruguayan poet Delmira Agustini. Le establishes herself as a talented transcriber of the human condition.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 88 pages
Publication date: 17 January 2023
Publisher: Acre Books
Jenna Le's third full-length collection, Manatee Lagoon, seamlessly blends traditional form with the contemporary moment. The collection features a diverse range of poetic forms, including sonnets, ghazals, pantoums, villanelles, and a "failed georgic," all interwoven with themes that reflect the modern world.
In Manatee Lagoon, Le explores a wide array of contemporary subjects, such as social media comment threads, Pap smears, eclipse glasses, and gun violence. Throughout the collection, manatees emerge as a recurring motif, symbolizing various aspects and themes of the book. Le associates manatees with mermaids, neurologists, the month of November, harmful political speech, and even a family photo taken at the titular lagoon.
Le's poems also delve into her experiences as the daughter of Vietnamese refugees in today's sometimes tense and hostile America. In one poem, she reflects on the morning after the 2016 election, when three women of color wait for the bus, one of them saying, "In this new world, we must protect each other."
Manatee Lagoon is a rich tapestry of voices, merging the personal and the persona. The collection includes poems dedicated to notable figures such as Kate Spade, John Ashbery, and Uruguayan poet Delmira Agustini. Through her skillful writing, Le establishes herself as a talented transcriber of the human condition and one of the foremost writers of formal verse today.
Dimension: 9 x 6 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781946724519
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