Moon : letters, maps, poems

Drawing on various Chinese mythologies about women, particularly the folktale of Chang ???E (the Lady in the Moon), this prose poetry manuscript investigates the intersection of femininity, home-building, and selfhood. It retells traditional stories by way of lyricism and iteration, and by focusing them along a more specific ???narrative??? journey of interiority. In its examination of the relationship between femininity and space, the manuscript readdresses the subject as a woman who makes a journey alone, who unbuilds her house in order to rebuild it, who seeks bewilderment and aloneness as a transformation necessary to her body. In this, I am interested in the relationship between woman and landscape, aesthetics of domesticity, and the blurring of internal/external spheres. The writing seeks to evoke an intimate, textured, and metaphorical atmosphere, where the moon is something earthy, dense, and shadowy