Letters to My Sze-Fu
A Geopoetic Reflection on Being Yi-Fu Tuan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 17827381 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tim Cresswell (0000-0002-9450-9339, University of Edinburgh, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-10 |
| Publication date | 2026-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | GeoHumanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2373-5678 • E-ISSN: 2373-566X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/2373566x.2026.2644928 |
| OpenAlex | W7160022225 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Between 1967 and 1996 Yi-Fu Tuan wrote letters to his sister Sze-Fu in Taipei. Sze-Fu kept these letters and on her death in 2003, the letters were returned. He included these letters in his self-published booklet Who Am I? A Sequel (2020). Together they reveal something of what it was like to be Yi-Fu Tuan in the years he became one of geography’s best-known scholars. Here, I use fragments of these letters to create poetic renditions of Tuan’s professional and personal preoccupations in these important years of his career. The fragments are themed around aphoristic wisdom, thoughts of home and travel, and the processes of aging and mortality. The poems contribute to the literature on biography and geographic thought as well as the creative turn within the geohumanities—both literatures that Tuan had an important role in inspiring.
Camouflage · Photography · Reflection (computer programming) · Ridiculous · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Comparative and World Literature · Jungian Analytical Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |