It has been too long since we have a visit by award-winning poet—and now, fiction writer—Marilyn Chin. Tonight, at last, is occasioned by the publication of her debut novel, Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen (W.W. Norton). "Wildly profane and funny riffs on folklore, chronicling the adventures of two very modern Chinese-American sisters. Meil Ling and Moonie Wong may live in contemporary California, but their iron-willed grandmother will not let the twins forget their ancestral land, or the wrongs done to it ... In this loosely knit series of short stories, many of which are based on Buddhist and Taoist parables as well as Chinese ghost stories, poet Chin spins out two young lives with outrageous humor. Multifaceted rather than linear, magical rather than literal, these tales tend to focus on the twins' childhood and adolescence, often presenting contrasting views of such similar rites of passages as dating and the loss of virginity. A fresh, chaotic and sexy updating of the cross-cultural experience." - Kirkus Reviews. Also on hand is the reissues of Marilyn Chin's award-winning 1993 collection of poems, The Phoenix Gone, The Terrace Empty (Milkweed). "Reading her, our sense of the possibilities of poetry is opened further, and we feel again what an active, powerful art it can be." - Adrienne Rich.