Ebook {Epub PDF} Six Rivers by Jenna Le

 · Jenna Le's debut book is a meditation on love and life, as refracted through the waters of six rivers, ranging from the mighty Mississippi River to the gloomy River Styx. Inspired by her experiences as a Vietnamese-American woman who earned a degree in mathematics before becoming a physician, these poems are sometimes autobiographical, sometimes based on flights of imagination. by Madeleine Marie Slavick. Jenna Le, Six Rivers, NYQ Books, 77 pgs. When Cha asked me to review a book, I hesitated. Although I have written several books, edited tens of others and published a handful of poetry titles through a small press, I find it problematic to encapsulate a whole book in . Jenna and I were both friends and rivals on the Minnesota spelling bee circuit from , when we were years old. Eventually we both grew up to be writers, publishing our first books — her book of poems, Six Rivers, and my YA novel, Sister Mischief — within months of each other in

Six Rivers|Jenna Le2 on a daily basis. Instructors issue many assignments that have to be submitted within a stipulated time. If Six Rivers|Jenna Le2 you think that the papers will reduce and you will have time to relax, you are wrong. In fact, the higher you climb the education ladder, the more work you have to do. Jenna Le is the author of Six Rivers (NYQ Books, ), which was a Small Press Distribution Bestseller, and A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora (forthcoming from Anchor and Plume Press, ). Her poetry, fiction, criticism, and translations appear or are forthcoming in AGNI Online, Bellevue Literary Review, The Best of the Raintown Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Los Angeles Review. Jenna Le is the author of Six Rivers (NYQ Books) and A History of the Cetacean American Diaspora (Indolent Books), a 2nd Place winner in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association's Elgin Awards. A two-time winner of the Poetry By The Sea sonnet competition, she has had poems appear in AGNI, Denver Quarterly, Los Angeles Review, Massachusetts Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Pleiades.

Jenna and I were both friends and rivals on the Minnesota spelling bee circuit from , when we were years old. Eventually we both grew up to be writers, publishing our first books — her book of poems, Six Rivers, and my YA novel, Sister Mischief — within months of each other in Six Rivers is a wonderful first collection of poems by Jenna Le. The book is divided into sections named after rivers; the first four are actual rivers figuring in Le’s life, from her cultural background through her childhood, student, and adult years. The final two are metaphorical rivers (Aorta and River Styx). Six Rivers. by Jenna Le. NYQ Books, Reviewed by Janelle Elyse Kihlstrom. In Jenna Le's accomplished debut collection Six Rivers, the poet draws inspiration from the bodies of water she has known – from memory, from her mother's reminiscences, and from the collective imagination. Exhibiting a rare natural ease with demanding forms.