Издание «Inherited Distance» Руйси Хэ раскрывает тему наследия и культурной идентичности

*美国南方出版社让中文出版走向世界舞台* 【内容简介】What do we inherit from the people who came before us-and what happens when we can no longer fully understand the language in which that inheritance was given? In Inherited Distance, poet and artist Ruisi He explores the spaces between generations, cultures, languages, bodies, memories, and selves. Across thirty poems, family history meets contemporary adolescence and young adulthood: ancestors emerge through fragments of memory; Chinese words carry meanings that English cannot quite contain; home becomes both inheritance and question; and ordinary experiences of school, friendship, love, art, technology, grief, and growing up acquire unexpected emotional weight. He's poetry moves freely between tenderness and irreverence, lyric intensity and conversational humor. Scientific imagery, digital culture, family rituals, food, classrooms, hospitals, mythology, and the language of everyday life coexist within a voice that is simultaneously searching and self-aware. Some poems look backward, toward grandparents and ancestral memory. Others inhabit the immediate pressures and absurdities of contemporary youth. Together they ask what it means to belong to a family, a culture, a generation-and even to one's own body. The visual dimension of the collection deepens this exploration: original artwork appears alongside the poetry, extending its emotional and imaginative vocabulary beyond words. Inherited Distance is ultimately a collection about connection: the connections we inherit, the ones we lose, and the ones we attempt to create across the distances between people. under fluorescent hymn we splinter into theorems: one: fourteen & fumbling through third-floor prophecies two: october's tender violence, tinted with remnants of heat three: your face a mirage of borrowed features 7:45 bleeds autumn into summer's aftermath. i find you stooping before porcelain altar, third sink becoming confessional— your spine curved gently, each plucked lash a decimal point in beauty's cruel arithmetic. you rewrite yourself in negative space, in absence, in the hollow where natural meets artificial color, blending. fake ones, i say without thinking my tongue heavy with calculus & constants, wednesday mornings spent racing through proofs while you architect new geometries of self. you turn: one eye naked testament, one eye adorned prophecy, a bisection of before & after captured in snapshot truth. Why wear them if you’re already— beautiful? you finished, pressing fresh lash on with a practiced twist, ritualistic you turned to me then, eyes now perfectly matched, little suns and glue suspends between dimensions like spaces between stars while your hair drifts gossamer across temple's foundation. i am plain. i am plain, miscalculating beauty's coefficient of drag, the force required to lift girl-wings against gravity of expectation. you teach me morning's translation: how transparency requires artificial shadow, how visibility comes in counted increments, each lash a brushstroke in identity's calligraphy. black wing traced eye, fluttering up, sharp line and hook. i like it, you say. it's very simple. and there’s nothing simple about it, nothing easy, but it’s just another routine, to you. you lean close—peach fuzz aureole above pink glossed lips— & the fault line ruptures: girl-self splits into parallel universes. we stand fractured across school bathroom stained mirrors, half-formed theorems seeking proof of existence, neither quantum state fully collapsed: truth/lie/compromise oscillating in superposition until the bell's metallic tongue rings us back into singular dimension. between bathroom sink & classroom desk, we lose ourselves in transformation's labyrinth: your borrowed wings, my borrowed certainties, all of us borrowing shapes to pour ourselves into, while morning light refracts through window-prism, splitting fourteen into infinite spectrum of becoming. 【作者简介】Ruisi He is a poet, artist, and student of culture. Fascinated by the stories people tell and the communities they create, she writes about belonging, memory, identity, and human connection. Her work draws from family history, online communities, fandom culture, contemporary life, and the spaces between languages, generations, and worlds.Born and raised in the United States and later moved to Shanghai, Ruisi is interested in how narratives travel across cultures and how people find one another through shared stories. 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