Synopsis
This collection of 131 poems moves between personal mourning and public witness. Mothers, ghosts, snow, and fire form a landscape in which tenderness remains close to darkness, and memory becomes a way of attending to lives at risk of being forgotten.
Writing across China and Chiang Mai, Chengguo Wang explores family, exile, historical wounds, and spiritual endurance. The poems ask what innocence and conscience can mean after loss, without turning away from the difficult realities that shape them.