When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities Contributor(s): Chen, Chen (Author), Brown, Jericho (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 1942683332 ISBN-13: 9781942683339 Publisher: BOA Editions
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: April 2017 Click for more in this series: A. Poulin, Jr. New Poets of America |
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BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - Asian American - Poetry | Lgbt - Poetry | Asian - Chinese |
Dewey: 811.6 |
LCCN: 2016048800 |
Series: A. Poulin, Jr. New Poets of America |
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 6.9" W x 8.9" L (0.40 lbs) 96 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Asian - Sex & Gender - Gay - Cultural Region - Chinese |
Features: Price on Product |
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 03/27/2017 Library Journal 04/15/2017 pg. 89 |
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Publisher Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY WINNER OF THE THOM GUNN AWARD FOR GAY POETRY WINNER OF THE GLCA NEW WRITERS AWARD WINNER OF THE A. POULIN, JR. POETRY PRIZE A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2017 SELECTION: POETRY & LITERATURE ON NPR BOOKS'S LIST OF POETRY TO PAY ATTENTION TO: 2017'S BEST VERSE But I was busy making a list: good dog, bad citizen, short skeleton, tall mocha. Typical Tuesday. My mother was in the hospital & no one wanted to be her friend. Everyone wanted to be soft cooing sympathies. Very reasonable pigeons. No one had the time & our solution to it was to buy shinier watches. We were enamored with what our wrists could declare. My mother was in the hospital & I didn't want to be her friend. Typical son. Tall latte, short tale, bad plot, great wifi in the atypical caf . My mother was in the hospital & she didn't want to be her friend. She wanted to be the family grocery list. Low-fat yogurt, firm tofu. She didn't trust my father to be it. You always forget something, she said, even when I do the list for you. Even then. Chen Chen was born in Xiamen, China, and grew up in Massachusetts. His work has appeared in two chapbooks and in such publications as Poetry, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Best of the Net, and The Best American Poetry. The recipient of the 2016 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, he has been awarded fellowships from Kundiman, the Saltonstall Foundation, Lambda Literary, and in 2015, he was a finalist for the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships. He earned his BA at Hampshire College and his MFA at Syracuse University. Currently, he is pursuing a PhD in English and Creative Writing at Texas Tech University. Chen lives in Lubbock, Texas, with his partner, Jeff Gilbert, and their pug dog, Rupert Giles. |
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