Why Is the Edge Always Windy?

M?ng-Lan has created a voice, palette, and geography entirely her own. Moving beyond the space of a single ethnic heritage, her spare, impressionist poems sing of places we recognize, opened up to their utter senselessness. In this striking new collection, the grainy strangeness of the modern world is rendered knowable and enduring. From Saigon to New York City to Paris, M?ng-Lan combines the earthly and the ecstatic, the animal and the sublime, to create lyrics that tempt and haunt. Poet and visual artist M?ng-Lan's debut collection, "Song of the Cicadas", won the 2000 Juniper Prize. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she is currently the inaugural poet in residence at the Dallas Museum of Art.Mong, LAN is the author of 'Why Is the Edge Always Windy? ', published 2006 under ISBN 9781932195286 and ISBN 1932195289.