'Imagine Us, The Swarm' Maps A Path Forward For The Asian Diaspora
In her latest collection, Chinese American poet Muriel Leung considers what it means to assimilate, and ultimately heal, against the collective memory of grief and vulnerability.
In the context of diaspora, the body is a vessel that knows how to adapt. And what does it carry? Pain, love, and resistance. All those, it carries forward.
Chinese American poet Muriel Leung explores this generational inheritance in a new book of poetic essays called Imagine Us, The Swarm.
For Leung, the swarm can mean bees in a hive, the American working class, or the collective Asian American
