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Chamber after Chamber by Saara Myrene Raappana

• Chamber after Chamber
  

• Saara Myrene Raappana
  

• Page: 66
  

• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
  

• ISBN: 9781625347787
  

• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
  

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Overview

Chamber after Chamber is about what fractures, fixes, and refills the hearts of two girls as they grow into women. A loose narrative in three sections, the poems follow a speaker and her cousin through their hardscrabble, backwoods childhood to their separation—both physical and emotional—as adults. From the make-believe apocalypses and cut-and-paste valentines of elementary school to the stadium-seating classrooms and multiplexes of southern China, our speaker tries to leave the shame and dysfunction of her family behind. In China, she begins to see America—and herself—clearly for the first time, and in doing so discovers that both her cousin and her country are inextricably woven into [her body] part             that never sleeps            the blood and chambered meat      that’s like a rock squeezed in a fist             rapping its knuckles on the sweet door             of the body.