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In his highly anticipated second collection, Chen Chen continues his investigation of family, both blood and chosen, examining what one inherits and what one invents, as a queer Asian American living through an era of Trump, mass shootings and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chen, Chen, 1989- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Rochester, New York : BOA Editions, Ltd., [2022].
Edition:First edition.
Series:American poets continuum series ; no. 194.
Subjects:
Gay men > Poetry.
POETRY / American / Asian American & Pacific Islander.
POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Family.
POETRY / LGBTQ+.
Table of Contents:
  • I. Summer [have a...]
  • Doctor's Note
  • Higher Education
  • Summer [You are the...]
  • The School of Australia
  • Items May Have Shifted
  • The School of Morning & Letters
  • The School of Fury
  • Winter [The grackles flap...]
  • The School of Your Book / Letter to Jennifer S. Cheng
  • Study Abroad
  • we'll be gone after these brief messages
  • II. Winter [Big smelly bowel...]
  • The School of Red
  • A small book of questions: chapter i
  • The School of More School
  • Then a student stands up, says, Are you serious?
  • A small book of questions: chapter ii
  • Winter [You become increasingly...]
  • Elegy While Listening to a Song I Can't Help But Start to Move to
  • A small book of questions: chapter iii
  • A small book of questions: chapter iv
  • A small book of questions: chapter v
  • One Year Later: A Letter
  • Summer [Your emergency contact...]
  • A small book of questions: chapter vi
  • A small book of questions: chapter vii
  • The School of Logic
  • The School of a Few or a Lot of My Favorite Things
  • A small book of questions: chapter viii
  • III. Origin Story
  • Winter [It's April. But...]
  • In the World's Italianest Restaurant
  • Summer [The sunflowers fall...]
  • Things the Grackles Bring
  • After My White Friend Says So Cool Upon Hearing Me Speak Chinese
  • Every Poem Is My Most Asian Poem
  • I am reminded via email to resubmit my preferences for the schedule
  • Four short essays personifying a future in which white supremacy has ended
  • Chen No Middle Name Chen
  • The School of Song, Uno, & Dinnertime
  • One Year Later: Her Answer
  • The School of Keyboards & Our Whole Entire History Up to the Present *
  • Autumn
  • IV. I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party
  • Ode to my beloveds & brevities
  • The School of Night & Hyphens
  • Ode to Rereading Rimbaud in Lubbock, Texas
  • The School of You
  • Zombie Kindnesses
  • Lunar New Year
  • Spring
  • The School of Eternities
  • Spring Summer Autumn Winter
  • The School of the Unschoolable
  • The School of Joy / Letter to Michelle Lin.