"hand-held soldier" is a piece that explores the shattering elements of love in the form of a broken letter. It attempts to depict heartbreak and yearning through fragments and tells a story that intertwines love and war, showing the ends and beginnings, tied and twisted into a single string.
Vivian Huang on "hand-held soldier" |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Sarah Ghazal Ali on Language as Form
"'Matrilineage [Umbilicus]' sprung from this unsettledness, not halfway into my first pregnancy, when my body ceased to be entirely mine. I came to the page eyes closed, hands outstretched to trace the contours of my thinking. I could not yet trace the face of my child, so I tried instead to touch each thought as it was born." |
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