Loop of Jade by Sarah Howe writing the nest comes to be

the nest comes to be seen as a human life lived

Poems 1960-2000

giving room to states of flux and flow in the body

on buses and balconies

looking on

Loop of Jade by Sarah Howe writing the nest comes to beThere is a Chinese proverb that says: It is more profitable to raise geese than daughters. But geese, like daughters, know the obligation to return home. In her exquisite first collection, Sarah Howe explores a dual heritage, journeying back to Hong Kong in search of her roots. With extraordinary range and power, the poems build into a meditation on hybridity, intermarriage and love what meaning we find in the world, in art, and in each other.