Sediment [Paperback]

In Sandy Tsengs first collection, leaving is both what remains and the act of going to another place, a different lifestyle, an unknown afterlife. This book recounts the pleasures and terrors of transition, of being in between languages. We travel with Tseng, learning that the sediment of our livesreceived traditions, half-recalled memories, accrued possessionsmight also be the fragments by which we recognize a future life, here or elsewhere.

Among SANDY TSENG'S awards are the 2006 Discovery / The Nation Award, Crab Orchard Reviews 2005 Richard Peterson Poetry Prize, and scholarships from the Vira I. Heinz Foundation and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. She lives in Denver, Colorado.