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Barbie Chang
Contributor(s): Chang, Victoria (Author)

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ISBN: 1556595166     ISBN-13: 9781556595165
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
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Binding Type: Paperback
Published: November 2017
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American - Asian American
- Poetry | Women Authors
Dewey: 811.6
LCCN: 2017023244
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 8.9" L (0.40 lbs) 96 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Asian
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
Features: Price on Product
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 10/16/2017
Library Journal 11/15/2017
 
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Publisher Description:
With astringent understatement and wry economy, with nuance and intelligence and an enviable command of syntax and poetic line, Victoria Chang dissects the venerable practices of cultural piety and self-regard. She is a master of the thumbnail narrative. She can wield a dark eroticism. She is determined to tackle subject matter that is not readily subdued to the proportions of lyric. Her talent is conspicuous.--Linda Gregerson
Chang's voice is equal parts searing, vulnerable, and terrified.--American Poets
Barbie Chang, Victoria Chang explores racial prejudice, sexual privilege, and the disillusionment of love through a reimagining of Barbie--perfect in the cultural imagination yet repeatedly falling short as she pursues the American dream.
This energetic string of linked poems is full of wordplay, humor, and biting social commentary involving the quote-unquote speaker, Barbie Chang, a disillusioned Asian-American suburbanite. By turns woeful and passionate, playful and incisive, these poems reveal a voice insisting that even silence is not silent.
From Barbie Chang Lives:
Barbie Chang lives on Facebook has
a house on Facebook
street so she can erase herself Facebook
is a country with
no trees it allows her to believe people
love her don't
want to cover her Barbie Chang . . .

Victoria Chang is the author of three previous poetry books. In 2013, she won the PEN Center USA Literary Award and a California Book Award. Chang teaches poetry at Chapman University and lives in Southern California.

 
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