A Thousand Crimson Blooms

The stunning new collection from prize-winning poet Eileen Chong — her most personal and accomplished work yet.

Eileen Chong's luminous poetry examines the histories — personal, familial and cultural — that form our identities and obsessions. A Thousand Crimson Blooms is a deepening of her commitment to a poetics of sensuous simplicity and complex emotions, even as she confronts the challenges of infertility or fraught mother-daughter relations. Entwined throughout are questions of migration and belonging.

Viewed as a whole, this collection is a field of flowers, aflame with light.