Zong, Winniebell2024-04-052023-08Zong_cornell_0058O_11958http://dissertations.umi.com/cornell:11958https://hdl.handle.net/1813/11440861 pagesMFA theses in English Language and Literature are not available for direct download. Users wishing to access an MFA thesis in this collection may request access by clicking the link to the restricted file(s) and completing the request form. If we have contact information for the author, we will contact them and request permission to provide access. If we do not have contact information or the author denies or does not respond to our inquiry, we will not be able to provide access.A poetry collection navigating through intergeneration, maternal lineage, PTSD after surviving sexual assault, and how COVID-era family separation expounds the diaspora identity for a Chinese woman. Other themes include feminism, mother-daughter relationship, and experiments in poetic form (such as contrapuntal, erasure, and free form).enChinese diasporaCOVIDExperimentalFeminismIntergenerationalPoetrydissertation or thesis