Of Flesh & Spirits:
When I opened the book and looked at the poem the first though the crossed my mind was "what the hell is this, this does not look like a poem." But after reading the first stanza my grudge about the format poofed into oblivion. From the first line Wang Ping captured me. Ever stanza subject is different but it all ties together is a profane, sexual way that is very unique. The poem circles around her own experiences with sex and relationships. But instead of writing a sappy emo poem about her first sex partner being married to a woman he wouldn't leave or how her first married only lasted a week she uses Chinese traditions and "twisted" (no foot pun intended) society morals to make it into something creative and humorous (yes, I have strange sense of humor). Also, the visuals in the poem are amazing. The rotten fish feet viewed as "erotic objects," relating a moonlit ditch to menstruation, and a greedy man walking around "with a penis hanging from his forehead" are all extremely brilliant! She took a common writing topic, sex, and morphed it into something I've never seen before using her heritage to fuel it.
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