Loop of Jade
Book • 2015
Sarah Howe's 'Loop of Jade' is a celebrated debut poetry collection that explores themes of identity, migration, and family across Chinese and English cultural contexts.
The book interlaces personal narrative with historical and cultural inquiry, engaging with memory, language, and the legacies of displacement.
It garnered critical acclaim and awards for its formal inventiveness and emotional depth.
Howe's lyric voice and archival interest in the collection established the concerns she returns to in her later work.
'Loop of Jade' functions as both intimate family investigation and broader meditation on belonging in the modern world.
The book interlaces personal narrative with historical and cultural inquiry, engaging with memory, language, and the legacies of displacement.
It garnered critical acclaim and awards for its formal inventiveness and emotional depth.
Howe's lyric voice and archival interest in the collection established the concerns she returns to in her later work.
'Loop of Jade' functions as both intimate family investigation and broader meditation on belonging in the modern world.
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