Your Face My Flag

Debut poems of stunning power and range from a China scholar and policy advisor

Torn between intimacy and estrangement, eros and politics,history and futurity, Your Face My Flag is a riveting debut poetrycollection. Gewirtz explores the place of poetry in a globalized era, shaped byescalating geopolitical tensions between China and "the West." From thefactories where iPhones are assembled to riverside idylls where men have longmet for sex, these poems move restlessly across continents and throughcenturies. In a world that conspires to dull us against the particular, Gewirtzwrites with sharp focus, recapturing memory and desire in stunning detail.