Soft cover. Zustand: Good+. Kristen Riello (illustrator). 1st Edition. Paperback. Binding sound, text clean, moderate shelfwear. Slight nick/bump to spine. Hard-to find title. Book.
EUR 15,58
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In den WarenkorbPaperback. Zustand: Brand New. 74 pages. 6.14x0.18x9.21 inches. In Stock.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Owl's Nest Publishers, LLC Apr 2024, 2024
ISBN 10: 1951979583 ISBN 13: 9781951979584
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Kyle Liang's full-length poetry collection, Good Son, encapsulates the 'American-born Chinese' diaspora in 70 stunning, heart-rending pages. At its core bleeds a life deeply troubled by Western centrism and not-so-casual racism. Liang details both suppression and acceptance through the lens of a speaker born to immigrant parents in a deft collection that refuses to separate identities into boxes. Explorations of informed consent, the rash of anti-Asian hate crimes that followed COVID-19, and the mockery of speech and accents and social issues intertwine with staggering prose in poems about resilience-and love. What the speaker longs for most is for their heart 'to be greedy again.' In these pages is the embodiment of that fathoms-deep exquisite longing for self.