An Emigrant's Winter New Release “Virginia Bell’s Lifting Child from

“Virginia Bell’s Lifting Child from the Ground

one art elides into the other

Craft-savvy and intelligent

of opening one’s eyes in a world where every color happens at once

” Alfier uses Death Valley warning signs and relief maps as guides not just for Southwestern haunts

An Emigrant's Winter New Release “Virginia Bell’s Lifting Child fromPui Ying Wongs An Emigrants Winter offers fresh eyes on both Chinese and American landscapes. Being the stranger gives the poet narrator a visionary lens to see paint almost undone by humidity and time, to identify with a gecko playing dead with its eyes open. The poet is an undercover observer, hiding out front like the gecko, hiding to survive. Boundary crossing poet Pui Ying Wong is always lyrical, no matter where she lights. By contrast with the