Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. "Though she describes herself as 'not ethnic enough, ' everything in this book bears the brand of Clara Hsu's Chinese identity. A couplet like this, 'Where there is no beginning or end there are definitely walls "wars"' would have a profoundly different effect if it had been written by a non Chinese person. Those troublesome r's and l's so often mindlessly parodied by the non Chinese inform the words 'walls' and 'wars, ' and each of those words might suggest aspects of Chinese experience in the USA. Clara Hsu is also a professional musician, and this...