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    "pk": 42950,
    "title": "Juncos, Sparrows, and Crows in the Transnational Poetry of Shirley Geok-lin Lim",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "This essay explores  Lim’s efforts to express and encourage inclusivity through the agency of  her poetic imagination. As Lim renavigates the Pacific and other  terrain and writes, she strives for a “utopian goal,” or to “voice  authenticity as a signified.” Her poems advocate self-empowerment so  that her nestlings can find their way in a world full of individuals of  every race, creed, and gender. Lim shapes her poems to recognize the  exhausting, long-term efforts a traveler or migrant must make as he or  she wanders; a journey is not always finite, circular, or linear. To  propel her inclusivity efforts, Lim often draws on imagery, not just of  birds, but also of political movements in Hong Kong and elsewhere,  natural disasters such as wildfires, or even a sunshine-filled  Californian moment. She crafts her form to share her advocacy via haiku,  alphabet, and prose poems. The intersections of her form, poetic  imagination, and transnational crisscrossings reveal the painstaking  ways in which a crosshatched identity develops and emerges over a  lifetime. This article offers a bird’s eye view of some of Lim’s recent  poems, mostly published after 2014, including her “Cassandra Days:  Poems,” as well as works from \nArs Poetica for the Day\n, \nDo You Live In?\n, and \nThe Irreversible Sun\n, not to mention an unearthed and unpublished interview from 1985.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY 4.0",
        "text": "<p>Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.</p>",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Shirley Geok-lin Lim"
        },
        {
            "word": "Transnationalism"
        },
        {
            "word": "Pauline T. Newton"
        },
        {
            "word": "agency, diversity and inclusion"
        },
        {
            "word": "transnational poetry"
        },
        {
            "word": "multicultural poetry"
        },
        {
            "word": "Hong Kong extradition bill"
        },
        {
            "word": "Hong Kong protests"
        },
        {
            "word": "Cassandra"
        },
        {
            "word": "cross-hatched identity"
        },
        {
            "word": "alphabet poems"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Festschrift: The Poetry and Poetics of Shirley Geok-lin Lim",
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        {
            "first_name": "Pauline",
            "middle_name": "T.",
            "last_name": "Newton",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Southern Methodist University",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2019-10-19T17:24:44+03:00",
    "date_accepted": "2019-10-19T17:24:44+03:00",
    "date_published": "2019-12-31T02:17:07+03:00",
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