Afterland by Mai Der Vang – An eloquent Surrealism.
Afterland by Mai Der Vang
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Mai Der Vang’s “Afterland” manages to make surrealistic and visionary poetry accessible. She writes from biography and family history but speaks the universal. Images collide and morph into each other and language and syntax warp away and back into common tongue. I particularly liked:
– Another Heaven
– Original Bones
– After All Have Gone
– Gray Vestige
– This Heft upon Your Leaving
– Three
Sometimes a poem stretches too far and fails from the surrealism and the warped syntax. But the collection as a whole is a fine one.