Jane Wong. Action (SPD, dist.), $12 trade paper (100p) ISBN 978-0-900575-91-4
“The sky was so blue you could hold it/ In your hand and throw it like a bomb,” writes Wong as she opens her beguiling debut collection. In the disorienting world of these poems, objects and ecosystems constantly transform and surprise, and exile,...
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Jane Wong. Alice James, $17.95 trade paper (100p) ISBN 978-1-948579-21-6
Wong (Overpour) explores loss, grief, migration, colonization, and alienation in her searching and resilient second collection. "To be a good daughter means to carry everything with you at all times," she writes, enacting the heavy burden of...
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Jane Wong. Tin House, $27.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-953534-67-5
In this delightful memoir in essays, Chinese American poet Wong (How to Not Be Afraid of Everything) reflects on her experiences growing up on the Jersey Shore as the child of immigrants and later life as an English professor. In the title piece,...
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