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Ima Katie
Marilyn Chin’s Poetry in Performance Experience
I was enthralled listening to Marilyn Chin perform her poetry. ... Ms Chin’s performance helped me hear how the elements of poetry - theme, tone, situation, setting, speaker - are used to assist in interpreting her works.
Ms Chin began her performance by reciting “How I Got that Name (an essay on assimilation)” from The Phoenix Gone, The Terrace Empty, 1994. This poem is about Marilyn Chin’s life and the struggle she has trying to be Chinese and American. She recalls how her father renamed her: “obsessed with a bombshell blonde/transliterated ‘Mei Ling’ to ‘Marilyn’. ... Ms Chin’s tone is full of sorrow at having to assimilate being Chinese into becoming American. “So here lies Marilyn Mei Ling Chin,”–- “survived by everybody, forgotten by all. / She was neither black nor white, / neither cherished nor vanquished, / just another squatter in her own bamboo grove / minding her poetry – - “.
Approximate Word count = 718
Approximate Pages = 2.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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