SOURCE: Gery, John. “Mocking My Own Ripeness: Authenticity, Heritage, and Self-Erasure in the Poetry of Marilyn Chin.” LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory 12, no. 1 (April 2001): 25-45.
In the following essay, Gery maintains that Chin finds her own voice, and transcends the constraints confronted by women writers of color, through “articulate emptinesses” and “imaginative reconstruction of the diverse resources she inherits.”
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