"From the Author: 'My poems aim to explore spiritual exile and the meaning of home in an age of globalization and instability. I am interested in exploring how landscape can be expressed in multiple levels: linguistically, through poetry of multilingualism and concreteness, such as meshing the ideogrammic meaning of Chinese characters with English texts; dialogically, through internal landscapes reflecting both the poet and the perceived; and constellationally, through aligning space and time around a landscape to decenter the hegemony of nations and memory. I believe landscape is that which gives us identity without dividing us. The genius loci is that which imbues us with ingenuity. After all, the earth is contiguous, and not the national borders.'"--