La Alameda Press - Shin Yu Pai

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Area of Inerest:
Notable Person - poetry, visual art, literature

Primary Ethnic Community Served:
Asian-American, Taiwanese-American, Caucasian

Description:
Equivalence, available October 2003 Drawing its name from photographer Alfred Stieglitz's series of cloud images, the poems in this collection from poet Shin Yu Pai explore connections and correspondences between poetry and the visual arts, Eastern and Western cultures, tradition and modernity, perpetual migration and the sense of home. In the course of this exploration, the poet is inspired by modern and contemporary artists such as Wolfgang Laib, Piet Mondrian, Joseph Cornell, Yoko Ono, and Felix Gonzales-Torres.

"Shin Yu Pai's imagination is like a fine pottery bowl, delicately shaped but capable of holding many things: playfulness, candor, descriptive elegance. She is working out her own welcome blend of cultures, Eastern and Western, and Equivalence is the lovely and often challenging result."--Rosellen Brown

"Shin Yu Pai matches a painter's grasp of the materiality of things with the poet's trick of arranging words for maximum musical effect. She knows that in poetry it is the music that keeps in the mind what is seen. Her poems honor their imagist heritage by making it new."--William Corbett

Equivalence received a 2003 grant from the Cambridge Arts Council and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

Shin Yu Pai is a poet and visual artist. Previous titles include Ten Thousand Miles of Mountains and Rivers. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

Staff:
Cirrelda Snyder-Bryan, Publicist
J.B. Bryan - Publisher

Submitted by:
Shin Yu Pai

New - 08/08/03