Leaving Biddle City : poems /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Chan, Marianne (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Louisville, Kentucky : Sarabande Books, [2024].
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Filipino Americans > Middle West > Poetry. Coming of age > Poetry. Conflict of generations > Poetry. Marginality, Social > Poetry. Memory > Poetry. Suburbs > Middle West > Poetry. Middle West > Race relations > Poetry.

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Summary:	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.
Physical Description:	76 pages : portrait ; 22 cm.
ISBN:	9781956046298 1956046291