Float True
A flow of pieces that carry story and emotion via reflections on an immigrant family history, metaphysical musings, and earthly perplexities--with occasional outbursts of ecstatic appreciation of nature. The unsegmented order of pieces is intended to create a loose narrative "swirl" that ushers the reader through layers of reflection and memory into a moving experience of language, discovery, and insight.
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"Deborah Jang's poetry sings with the wisdom of elder and innocence of infant and as such reads as timeless: 'The peace of spirit that you seek encompasses all in-betweens, measures life in graces.'"
-- Kimberly L. Becker, poet
"From the nuanced and tender to the mundane and sublime, Deborah Jang's introspective poetry recalls the metered lyrics of the early Romantics -- but with an acute awareness that springs from her identity as a modern Chinese American woman straddling the contradictions of a racialized world in crisis. 'Will hate extinguish every star? Can we rewrite the skies?' she asks. Are these questions or manifesto?"
-- Genny Lim, poet, playwright, former San Francisco Poet Laureate
"Deborah Jang writes rich, dense, and moving poems. Every word adds to the weight and momentum of this collection. Float True reads like we are sitting at the poet's feet while she lets us remember with her, drawing connections between ancestry, water, and lived experience, both hers and ours."
-- Suzi Q. Smith, poet
"In her first book, Deborah Jang creates a form of her own, beginning with rich, abundant language that threads love and anger, violence and rich peace through story and memory, familial history, race, and resistance. This is a book that comes to clarity and like the title, floats true and centered."
-- Linda Hogan, author and poet
