How Often I Have Chosen Love
Shan, Xiao Yue / Joshua, Roark
Color and light and life invigorate Xiao Yue Shan's de- but chapbook-or, in her own words: "a thrill of poppy and chrysanthemum". How Often I Have Chosen Love explores the rediscovery of her nuanced and complex family, her nuanced and complex sense of home, the nuanced and complex history of China. From the flag in Tiananmen Square to the apartments of San Francisco, Shan complicates our sense of home and history by filling every reflection an...