{"product_id":"your-historical-loveliness-knows-no-bounds-form-futurity-and-documentary-desire-paperback","title":"Your Historical Loveliness Knows No Bounds: Form, Futurity, and Documentary Desire - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWendy Xu\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving freely between essay, close-reading, ekphrasis, memoir, travelogue, lecture notes, poetry, and even monologue, \u003ci\u003eYour Historical Loveliness Knows No Bounds\u003c\/i\u003e presents a series of \"thinking-throughs\" of formally innovative and politically oriented poets pushing the boundaries of what poetry can hold. Tracing a personal family history of immigration amidst larger concerns of diaspora, \"unsayability,\" and absence, Wendy Xu reads the work of poets including Layli Long Soldier, Inger Christensen, Ocean Vuong, Liu Xia, giovanni singleton, Bei Dao, Diana Khoi Nguyen, and others. She explores existential and pedagogical questions in poetry from the point of view of a reader and a teacher. Why write? and why invite the paradoxes of a documentary approach into that writing? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Not an overview or primer, least of all the final word, this free-ranging exploration of contemporary poetry considers larger questions of belonging, diaspora, the violence of language, the allure of the past, genre, witness, and form. It returns to memorable touchstone texts in the author's life with renewed curiosity about their inner workings. Essays move with restless curiosity across topics, bringing them into conversation with poetry, from considering depictions of Christ in Pier Paolo Pasolini's \u003ci\u003eThe Gospel According to St. Matthew\u003c\/i\u003e, to the ecstatic illegible texts of Henri Michaux, discomfiting likenesses of agoraphobia and political imprisonment, and the epistolary trouble of fan-mail. Xu is drawn to poetry works of radical hybridity alongside personal experiences of formal intensity, as an immigrant daughter, a parentified child, an occasional agoraphobe, and a writer. \u003ci\u003eYour Historical Loveliness Knows No Bounds\u003c\/i\u003e is a tour of poetic influences and the futures they've made possible.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWendy Xu\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Writing at The New School. She is the author of three books, including \u003ci\u003ePhrasis\u003c\/i\u003e, which \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e named one of the 10 Best Poetry Books of 2017.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 194\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.49 x 8.05 x 5.45 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 06, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45835575492805,"sku":"9780472040001","price":21.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/sOkvPkJlii9780472040001.webp?v=1771253768","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/your-historical-loveliness-knows-no-bounds-form-futurity-and-documentary-desire-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}