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When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities is the 2017 debut poetry collection by Chinese American poet Chen Chen, published by BOA Editions. The book was longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry and received the Thom Gunn Award from the Publishing Triangle. Chen's poems ad...
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National Book Award finalist praised for tenderness, formal inventiveness, queer Asian American perspective, humor, and imaginative possibility.
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Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency is a 2022 poetry collection by Chen Chen. Its poems examine queer life, family relationships, Chinese American identity, grief, intimacy, and the social dislocation associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Written for readers of contemporary lyric po...
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Strong critical acclaim for formally adventurous treatments of family crisis, language, diaspora, and bureaucracy; fragmentation sometimes produces emotional distance.
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