Prescribee /
An arch, precise collection of poems that casts world-historical hierarchies in an aspic mold and serves them back to us on a warped platter. Reading Prescribee is not dissimilar to the experience of coming across a recipe in a vintage American cookbook. It transforms the familiar ingredients of con...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Nightboat Books,
[2022].
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| Summary: | An arch, precise collection of poems that casts world-historical hierarchies in an aspic mold and serves them back to us on a warped platter. Reading Prescribee is not dissimilar to the experience of coming across a recipe in a vintage American cookbook. It transforms the familiar ingredients of contemporary life into an uncanny, discomfiting concoction. Wielding English as a foreign language and medium, Chang redefines the history of Taiwan and captures the alienation of immigrant experience with a startlingly original voice. Flouting tired expectations of race, gender, nationality and citizen status, Prescribee is as provocative as it is perceptive, as playful as it is sobering. |
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| Physical Description: | 75 pages : portrait ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781643621517 1643621513 |