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ISBN: 0809388847 1299050883 9780809388844 0809325691 9780809325696 9781299050884 Year: 2004 Publisher: Carbondale Crab Orchard Review :Southern Illinois University Press

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In her second collection of poems, Lee Ann Roripaugh probes themes of mixed-race female identities, evoking the molting processes of snakes and insects who shed their skins and shells as an ongoing metaphor for transformation of self. Intertwining contemporary renditions of traditional Japanese myths and fairy tales with poems that explore the landscape of childhood and early adolescence, she blurs the boundaries between myth and memory, between real and imagined selves. This collection explores cultural, psychological, and physical liminalities and exposes the diasporic arc cast

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