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Bezig met laden... Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergencydoor Chen Chen
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten. This collection traces loss and angst and queer joys through various relationships. The speaker in these poems wrestles with his mother's inability to acknowledge her queer son's boyfriend, lifts the names and voices of the innocent murdered at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, questions whether a white cashier really just discriminated against him (the way we Brown & Black people do: wonder if the racist thing we suffered only a few minutes ago was actually a racist thing, because a part of us, desirous of living free of judgement, still hope that the worst in people is not that bad, surely; not as bad as hate), expresses all the ways he loves men, and so much more. The collection is bold, unapologetic, grievous, and also heartwarming. There's this sort of gracious tone to the poems. I don't know why his grace surprised me - perhaps because the subjects of his poems, at times, don't deserve it (imho). A wonderful read and shoutout to Chen Chen. Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten. Chen Chen's collection of poetry is so viscerally emotional as to be both enchantingly impossible to put down and almost painfully relatable to anyone who has had to confront questions of queerness and acceptance within themselves and across family and cultural lines. So much is wrapped up in these poems. This book is a modern masterpiece of language, carefully crafted and masterfully wrought. Whether you are a fan of poetry or not, this collection belongs on your shelf and in your mind. Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten. It's incredible how many times this collection either made me grin, laugh, or feel on the verge of crying. Amazing amazing amazing. There wasn't a single poem I didn't like.
"Instead, queer means, splendiferously, you."Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten. I loved everything about this book - the layout, the format, the physical dimensions, the cover art. And of course, most of all, the poetry within. This was the first I've ever read of Chen Chen's work, but I've since gone on to collect everything he's ever published, and I even found out that he was an artist in residence at my undergrad alma mater. Truly beautiful and heartbreaking work here.geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves calling out for rescue? In his highly anticipated second collection, Chen Chen continues his investigation of family, both blood and chosen, examining what one inherits and what one invents, as a queer Asian American living through an era of Trump, mass shootings, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Always at work in the wrecked heart of this new collection is a switchboard operator, picking up and connecting calls. Raucous 2 a.m. prank calls. Whispered-in-a-classroom emergency calls. And sometimes, its pages record the dropping of a call, a failure or refusal to pick up. With irrepressible humor and play, these anarchic poems celebrate life, despite all that would crush aliveness. Hybrid in form and set in New England, West Texas, and a landlocked province of China, among other places, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency refuses neat categorizations and pat answers. Instead, the book offers an insatiable curiosity about how it is we keep finding ways to hold onto one another. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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This collection absolutely blew me away, and was instantly promoted to my favorites shelf. His writing is joyful and playful and queer in ways that shine through even when writing about fear, about heartbreak, about rejection from those who should love you most, about gatekeeping.
I made note of so many particular favorites, but one that I think encapsulates this very succinctly is "we'll be gone after these brief messages." god appears in a magenta rowboat. god, the poet's grandmother and mother all weigh in, often with barbs, about the meaning and purpose of life. But in the end, god gets back in a turquoise steamship:
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