My Mother Once Gave Up Her Savior: Featured Poetry by Tina Chang
by Nick Ripatrazone
May 14, 2019
2 minutes
Our series of poetry excerpts continues with a poem by from her new book, . “Mankind Is So Fallible” is a lovely, ambitious poem about the mysteries of belief. Chang’s lines are simultaneously gentle but jarring: we are eased into the murky and mystical place of faith. In Chang’s poem, the narrator’s mother sets aside God—”She no longer believed in the unseen”—leading
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