I Love a Broad Margin to My Life Author:Maxine Hong Kingston In her singular voice?humble, elegiac, practical?Maxine Hong Kingston sets out to reflect on aging as she turns sixty-five. — In swift verse lines that become, in her hands, another way of writing memoir, Kingston embraces Thoreau’s notion of a “broad margin,” hoping to expand her vista: “I’m standing on top of a hil... more »l / I can see everywhichway? / the long way that I came, and the few places / I have yet to go. Treat / my whole life as if it were a day.” As she flies between her activities as writer, peace activist, teacher, and mother, Kingston also revisits her characters: she learns the final fate of her Woman Warrior, and she takes her Tripmaster Monkey, a hip Chinese American, on a journey through China. Ultimately, traveling without allies, she arrives at places where “Doors / between heaven and earth open wide.”
Such is the spirit of this wonderful book?doors opening wide onto an American life of great purpose and joy, and the tonic wisdom of a writer we have come to cherish.« less
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