Winner of the prestigious Airlie Prize, SLOW RENDER unfolds in three lyrical movements, weaving together journeys and landscapes, personal history and cityscapes.
The 2022 winner of the national Airlie Prize, Jess Yuan's debut collection teems with maps and histories, journeys and landscapes, weaving together worlds with tender and incisive lyricism. Told in three parts, this book unveils as it journeys, slowly rendering into landscapes of childhood warped by memory. These poems wrestle with images of spatial order and disorder within the city, the planet, the home, and the body. From expansive world building sequences to the tight interiority of room-sized sonnets, Yuan's poems interrogate how our environments are imagined, constructed, represented, and lived in. With piercing and visceral language, SLOW RENDER sings of longing and belonging in this stunning, unique collection.
"... ecological, and dizzyingly, inexorably global. In Yuan's debut you'll find fierce questioning and reckoning, as well as joy in discovery and invention and the structures of nature, beauty to be found in a burning world."-- Dora Malech, author of Flourish
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Women's Studies.
