Document Type
Essay
Abstract
[First paragraph]
First, it must be noted that Dhompa’s poetry is beautiful. That is not what I wish to discuss partly because I feel that beauty should occur rather than be talked about, and partly because I feel ill-equipped to discuss beauty in its traditional forms. What interests me more is genre, which Dhompa’s new book of poetry brings into question to provocative ends. While modernism and postmodernism have long discussed what the poem can contain, it is relatively recently that certain critics, such as Maria Damon with her discussion of “micro-poetries,” have begun to explore the domains that poetry itself can contaminate. In that spirit, I wish to discuss how My rice contaminates the genre of the essay and what results from this contamination.
Repository Citation
Clinton, Alan. "Essaying the Essay: Tsering Wangmo Dhompa’s My Rice Rastes Like the Lake." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 11, no. 4, 2011, pp. 1–6. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol11/iss4/8