Wei, Shao. Pulling a Dragon's Teeth.(Book Review)

Univ. of Pittsburgh. (Pitt Poetry). 2003. c.88p. ISBN 0-8229-5835-X. pap. $12.95. POETRY

Winner of the 2002 Agnes Lynch Starrett poetry prize, this volume depicts a woman creating an identity out of two cultures. Caught between China and America, East Sichuan and Manhattan, the Yangtze River and the Hudson River, Shao Wei searches for sources of nourishment in a world in which she is forced to cut her heart "into two halves?" For the resolution of unsatisfactory family and personal relationships, she turns to a "Fairy-Tale Book" for spiritual replenishment. As a young girl's lonely fantasizing becomes a woman's awareness of unfulfilled …