{"product_id":"alien-miss-paperback-softback-9780299331344","title":"Alien Miss (Paperback \/ softback) 9780299331344","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAlien Miss\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCarlina Duan (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780299331344\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 9 March 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e112 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 17.8 x 0.5 cm, 0.198 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eA vivid and electric collection that ranges from surrealist alter-ego poems that vivisect the fetishization of Asian femininity to narrative poems that recount the absurd and tender contradictions of a Chinese childhood in the Midwest. Duan offers poetry that is outsized with lyrical rage and heart.\" - Cathy Park Hong, author of \u003ci\u003eMinor Feelings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Duan's lyric emerges out of a community's collective will to live and insists that poems are made of such legacies of loss, invention, memory, tatter. She finds an utterance that is perhaps vital to her, and is, yes, certainly vital to me. Such a work is a reminding, and such a re-minding is enormous.\" - Aracelis Girmay, author of \u003ci\u003eKingdom Animalia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a stunning book of family histories and family portraits, belonging and unbelonging. These poems are a world I can't wait to return to, over and over again.\" - Safia Elhillo, author of \u003ci\u003eThe January Children\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn her stunning second collection, Carlina Duan illuminates unabashed odes to lineage, small and sacred moments of survival, and the demand to be fully seen 'spangling with light.' Tracing familial lore and love, Duan reflects on the experience of growing up as a diasporic, bilingual daughter of immigrants, exploring the fraught complexities of identity, belonging, and linguistic reclamation. \u003ci\u003eAlien Miss\u003c\/i\u003e brings forth beautifully powerful voices: immigrants facing the Chinese Exclusion Act, the first Chinese American woman to vote, and matriarchal ancestors. The poems in this ambitious collection are immersed in the knotted blood of sisterhood, both celebrating and challenging conceptions of inheritance and homeland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI browse through\u003cbr\u003earchives full of men and women with long black hair,\u003cbr\u003ethrowing themselves into the land. thread of grass. thread\u003cbr\u003eof immaculate touch. paper son, or paper\u003cbr\u003edaughter. my own papers marked with wings, the pointed\u003cbr\u003etip of an eagle's beak. here, I'm made prey.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI pledge allegiance.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e-Excerpt from 'Alien Miss Confronts the Author'\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52530904465688,"sku":"9780299331344","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/alien-miss-paperback-softback-9780299331344","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}