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"Blood-Letting"205 views
Author
Sophronius, Jeddie, Creative Writing - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Virginia
Advisors
Petrosino, Kiki, English, University of Virginia
Abstract
Blood-Letting is a poetry collection that explores the speaker's Chinese-Indonesian heritage from a position of distance and retrospect. The poems detail the larger context of discriminatory rhetoric and policies in the socio-political landscape of Indonesia, all of which are juxtaposed against the speaker's relationship with their family and the beloved. The second half of the collection is composed of a series of docupoems revolving around the 1965 massacre in Indonesia.
Sophronius, Jeddie. "Blood-Letting". University of Virginia, Creative Writing - Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, MFA (Master of Fine Arts), 2022-04-26, https://doi.org/10.18130/7wy3-7c62.