回 / Return by Emily Lee Luan Every Little Sound as both patient and witness

as both patient and witness

and his findings - a deeply moving mixture of texture

landscape and documentary photography

loss of friends

Through these fragments

回 / Return by Emily Lee Luan Every Little Sound as both patient and witnessRooted in the classical tradition of the Chinese "reversible" poem, Return is engaged in the act of looking back, toward an imagined homeland and a childhood of suburban longing, through migratory passages, departures, and etymologies, and into the various holes and voids that appear in the telling and retelling of history. The poems ask: What is feeling? What is melancholy? Can language translate either?