not so, sea

by M.G. Roberts

Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. NOT SO, SEA is an experimental text that fuses the speaker's transcontinental and matrilineal lines with the discourses of the speaker's own reproductive body alongside the bodies of her daughters. The manuscript is organized through a series of missives that work to weave together the themes of: the mother-daughter dyad, the landscape of the Philippines, memory, and the difficulty of fixing immigrant bodies in a secure and linear narrative.

Author City: OAKLAND, CA USA

Born in Subic Bay, Philippines, Mg Roberts teaches writing in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a Kundiman Fellow and Kelsey Street Press member. Her work has appeared in the Stanford Journal of Asian American Studies, Bombay Gin, Web Conjunctions, Shampoo, among other publications, and is forthcoming in GALATEA RESURRECTS and the anthologies Strangers and Nests: On Asian Women (Kelsey Street Press) and Kuwento: Lost Things (Carayan Press). She lives in Oakland with her two daughters, four hens, one puppy, and husband. NOT SO, SEA (Durga Press, 2014) is her first book.

Genres: Poetry

86 pages, Paperback

First published January 24, 2014

Reviews

[Jai · Rating 5 out of 5]

There are two paths of energy and perception in Mg Roberts’ debut collection, not so, sea. One is the linkage between units of sound, or a filmstrip. The second is spinal.[...] READ MORE of my review at TAYO Literary Magazine: http://www.tayoliterarymag.com/review...