My Name is Immigrant

by Wang Ping

Overview

Wang Ping was born in Shanghai and grew up on a small island in the East China Sea. After three years farming in a mountain village during the Cultural Revolution, and with little prior formal education available, she graduated from Beijing University. In 1985 she left China to study in the U.S., earning her Ph.D. from New York University. In addition to her books and related awards listed on page 2, she is a recipient of grants, fellowships, residencies, and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Minnesota State Arts Board. Loft Literary Center, McKnight Foundation, Bush Foundation, Lannan Foundation, and many more. Wang Ping is also a photographer and multimedia artist whose exhibitions address global themes of industrialization, the environment, interdependency, and the people. She currently lives in St. Paul, MN, and is a professor of English and founder of the Kinship of Rivers project.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781934909669
Publisher:	Hanging Loose Press
Publication date:	05/04/2020
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

Born in Shanghai and confined to a farm during the Cultural Revolution, Wang Ping eventually came to the US, earned a doctorate at New York University, and has had a busy career of writing, teaching, and activisim. She is the author of MY NAME IS IMMIGRANT (Hanging Loose Press, 2020) and the editor of NEW GENERATION: POEMS FROM CHINA TODAY (Hanging Loose Press, 1999).

Table of Contents

Dedication-things we carry on the sea 7

I Old Home $$$ Lao Jia

Cockle Pickers: Cao Chaokun 11

Cockle Pickers from Morecambe Bay 12

Cockle Pickers: Xie Xiaowen, Yang Tianlong 14

Dust angels 15

Cockle Pickers: Xu Yuhua, Liu Qinying 17

Hakka Man Farms Rare Earth Metal 18

Cockle Pickers: Lin Zhifang, Yu Hui, Wen Ge 20

Boy at Sea 21

How To Cross the Line 23

Cockle Pickers: Wen Ge, Chen Aiqin 26

Lao Jia $$$ Old Home 27

Cockle Pickers: Wu Hongkong 30

II An Immigrant Carol

An Immigrant Carol 33

The Story of the Golden Venture 36

Calling Ghosts from the Golden Venture 38

Cockle Pickers: Chen Aiqin 44

The Last Call from Aleppo 45

Our Prayers on Father's Day 46

Cockle Pickers: Wang Minglin 48

Broken Intestines: A Honduras Story 49

Duan Chang-$$$-Broken Intestines 51

Cockle Pickers: Guo Nianzhu, Yu Hui 55

Boy in America 56

China Wok 58

Cockle Pickers: Lin Guohua 60

Buried on Christmas Eve 61

Silent Night: For Jakelin and Felipe 62

Cockle Pickers: Wang Xiuyu 64

What Marwan Carries across the Desert 65

The Names You Call Me 67

Cockle Pickers: Zhou Xunchao, Dong Xiwu 69

III Immigrant can't write poetry

Immigrant can't write poetry 73

Cockle Pickers: Guo Changmoo, Zhang Xiuhua 74

Of Mice and Mankind $$$ 75

Cockle Pickers: Guo Binglong 77

She Shall Not Be Moved 78

The Peacemaker 79

Cockle Pickers: Lin Guogang, Lin Youxing 80

Who Killed Soek-Fang $$$ 81

Cockle Pickers 85

Blind Sight, Hidden Brain 86

Cockle Pickers: Wu Jiazhen 89

Ten Thousand Waves 90

Pity the Nation 92

IV My Name Is Immigrant $$$

Wandering Souls 97

Cockle Pickers: Liu Qinying, Xu Yuhua 98

Pilgrimage 99

The art of bargaining 102

A Beijing Neurologist in Brooklyn 104

Cockle Pickers: Chen Muyu, Yang Tianlong 107

Solstice in Lhasa 108

What We Carry to Everest 110

Cockle Pickers: Wang Xiuyu, Zhang Xiuhua 113

My Name Is Immigrant $$$ 114

V Hui Jia … $$$ … Circling Home

Mino Giizhii Goo Kwe: Good Sky Woman 119

Hui Jia … $$$ … Circling Home 122

Cockle Pickers 125

Acknowledgments 127