Paradiso Diaspora

As the anagram of its title suggests, the poems, prose, lyrics, and memoir in John Yaus new collection focus on an inescapable duality. It is the duality of living in both painted gardens and in the shadows of historic events that sweep one along. Yau explores the language of telling, of biography, auto and otherwise, of landscapes that are simultaneously imaginary and real, of ways to enter and leave the kingdom of poetry. This is a book of displacements and unpredictable associations, of last confessions and coming attractions, at once haunted and haunting.Yau, John is the author of 'Paradiso Diaspora', published 2006 under ISBN 9780143037156 and ISBN 0143037153.