Magnolia, 木蘭 by Nina Mingya Powles
PBS Autumn Recommendation 2020 Rockingham Press while waiting for lambing at

while waiting for lambing at a friend's farm

– Alissa Bennett

as well as a third long poem ‘The Body Returns’

bog butter

while all her poetry also casts a bright

Magnolia, 木蘭 by Nina Mingya Powles <br><b>PBS Autumn Recommendation 2020</b> Rockingham Press while waiting for lambing atMagnolia, , Nina Mingya Powles first full collection, dwells within the tender, shifting borderland between languages, and between poetic forms, to examine the shape and texture of memories, of myths, and of a mixed race girlhood. Abundant with multiplicities, these poems find profound, distinctive joy in sensory nourishment in the sharing of food, in the recounting of memoirs, or vividly within nature. This is a poetry deeply attuned to the