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117 pp.
| Simon/Wiseman
| March, 2005
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TradeISBN 0-689-86943-6$15.95
(2)
4-6
In free verse, Chun Yu describes her childhood during the Chinese Cultural Revolution. While much of the book is simply prose broken into lines, the form allows for very short, separate, but important thoughts to be brought out as a single poem and may also make this account of a little-discussed time more accessible to young readers.