Yellow Woman Speaks: Selected Poems

by Merle Woo

Poetry. "Shadow become real; follower become leader; mouse turned sorcerer-/ In a red sky, a darker beast lies waiting,/ Her teeth, once hidden, now unsheathed swords./ Yellow woman, a revolutionary, speaks" --from YELLOW WOMAN SPEAKS.

Genres: Poetry, LGBT

60 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

About the author

Merle Woo is a Chinese-American academic, poet and activist who has been described as "a leading member of the Radical Women and the Freedom Socialist Party". Her essay "Letter to Ma" was selected for inclusion in the 1981 feminist anthology This Bridge Called My Back.

Reviews

[Haley · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a really quick book, only 50 pages, but I've been trying to read more from women of color, and I have very little knowledge of the experiences of Asian American women in the United States. Her poetry sheds a bit of light on that, and also emphasizes the importance of a feminism that is anti-capitalist and anti-racist - a feminism that is "a fight for everyone who is oppressed in one way or another and which has as its goal the certainty that Those on the Front Line of Freedom will inherit the Earth."