Evaporation
By Claire Hsu Accomando
Description
Evaporation is a gift. Claire Hsu Accomando writes with wonder, precision, and cinematic wisdom. The remembrances and stories of China, France, and America are rendered with tenderness, intelligence, and joy. What a remarkable life there is inside this book, the poet's expansive heart.
—Lee Herrick, California Poet Laureate
Evaporation is a radiant narrative, told in inventive forms. Accomando's delicate brushstrokes of language say what we can know before we know. This is a remarkable study of language, identity, migration, relation, loss, and how we continue on.
—Janelle Adsit, author of Unremitting Entrance
Voluptuous with colors and textures, this book of family memory is a vivid gift to the reader that celebrates lived experience recounted with precision before it can slip from our grasp like vapor.
—Barbara Brinson Curiel, author of Mexican Jenny and Other Poems
Accomando teaches us about the lightness, the belief, and the discipline of love, despite every obstacle. In these times of upheaval and tumult, we need this exemplar. I will be teaching this book for decades.
—Raina J. León, author of black god mother this body
Claire Hsu Accomando was born in Switzerland to a Chinese father and French-Armenian mother. She spent her early childhood in rural France, separated from her father who was in China during WWII. Her memories of the war years are collected in her memoir, Love and Rutabaga. Accomando's poetry has appeared in Atlanta Review, San Diego Poetry Annual, Toyon, Bullets into Bells and other publications. Her artwork has appeared in Three Hearts, Moon Water, and JustArts: Call & Response. Her nonfiction has been published in Ararat, Critical Flame, Artweek, and elsewhere. Accomando lives in Bonita, CA, and defines poetry as distillation: You start out with a truckload of potatoes and end up with a shot of vodka.
ISBN
978-1-962081-20-7
Publication Date
Spring 1-22-2025
Publisher
The Press at Cal Poly Humboldt
City
Arcata
Keywords
Poetry
Recommended Citation
Accomando, Claire Hsu. Evaporation. The Press at Cal Poly Humboldt, 2025. https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/fiction/17.
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