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When a Name Falls from a Face: A discussion of a selection from Divya Victor’s book Curb

Poem Talk

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The Dot Busters Poem

This particular scene of violence goes back to 1987 and it is a locus classicus of anti-Asian violence. So that might help us with this double voiceness. Joe Pialy, thoughts? Well, Al, you said the word double voice. And I thought, actually, the place where the poem is really lives for me is in the word dot busters.

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