A brand new collection from award-winning poet Marianne Chan.
A coming-of-age narrative, Leaving Biddle City details one Filipina American speaker’s experience of growing up amid a white, Midwestern suburbia mythologized as “Biddle City.” Through prose poems, pantoums, ballads, flattened haikus, and thematic autobiographies, Chan maps a territory of intergenerational conflict, racial alienation, and memory and forgetfulness. What’s achieved is a work of play and meticulous beauty, a collection that reframes how we may understand ourselves, our histories, and the places where we are from.
Author: Marianne Chan
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Published: 07/30/2024
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781956046298
Language: English
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