When I Grow up I Want to Be A List of Further Possibilities
Book - 2017
"In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family -- the strained relationship between a mother and son, the cost of necessary goodbyes -- all from Asian American, immigrant, and queer perspectives. Holding all accountable, this collection fully embraces the loss, grief, and abundant joy that come with charting one's own path in identity, life, and love. When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities. To be a season of laughter when my father says his coworker is like that, he can tell because the guy wears pink socks, see, you don't, so you can't, you can't be one of them. To be the one my parents raised me to be. A season from the stormiest planet. A very good feeling with a man. Every feeling, in pink shoes. Every step, hot pink."--
Publisher:
Rochester, NY : BOA Editions, Ltd., 2017
Edition:
First edition
Copyright Date:
©2017
ISBN:
9781942683339
1942683332
1942683332
Branch Call Number:
811.6 C42042W 2017
Characteristics:
96 pages ; 23 cm
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Visually vivid, erotic and intimate, at times bitingly funny, and refreshingly world-observant, Chen's poems are steeped in the pain of being other as both Asian American and gay.
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Add a CommentThere was a poem or two at the end that I enjoyed and maybe one or two in the middle. Overall, to me (a person who does not read poetry, so take all of this with a grain of salt), it just felt like a journal full of random, unorganized thoughts mixed with too many over-the-top metaphors.