When I grow up I want to be a list of further possibilities
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Brown, Jericho, writer of foreword.
Published
Rochester, NY : BOA Editions Limited, 2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
96 pages ; 23 cm.
Status
Incline Village Library - Adult Nonfiction
811.6 CHEN 2017
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Published
Rochester, NY : BOA Editions Limited, 2017.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English

Notes

General Note
"Winner of The A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize"--Cover.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 88-90).
Description
"In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family -- the strained relationship between a mother and son, the cost of necessary goodbyes -- all from Asian American, immigrant, and queer perspectives. Holding allaccountable, this collection fully embraces the loss, grief, and abundant joy that come with charting one's own path in identity, life, and love. When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities. To be a season of laughter when my father sayshis coworker is like that, he can tell because the guy wears pink socks, see, you don't, so you can't, you can't be one of them. To be the one my parents raised me to be. A season from the stormiest planet. A very good feeling with a man. Every feeling,in pink shoes. Every step, hot pink."--,Provided by publisher.
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"In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family--the strained relationship between a mother and son, the cost of necessary goodbyes--all from Asian American, immigrant, and queer perspectives. Holding all accountable, this collection fully embraces the loss, grief, and abundant joy that come with charting one's own path in identity, life, and love. In the Hospital My mother was in the hospital & everyone wanted to be my friend. But I was busy making a list: good dog, bad citizen, short skeleton, tall mocha. Typical Tuesday. My mother was in the hospital & no one wanted to be her friend. Everyone wanted to be soft cooing sympathies. Very reasonable pigeons. No one had the time & our solution to it was to buy shinier watches. We were enamored with what our wrists could declare. My mother was in the hospital & I didn't want to be her friend. Typical son. Tall latte, short tale, bad plot, great wifi in the atypical café. My mother was in the hospital & she didn't want to be her friend. She wanted to be the family grocery list. Low-fat yogurt, firm tofu. She didn't trust my father to be it. You always forget something, she said, even when I do the list for you. Even then. Chen Chen was born in Xiamen, China, and grew up in Massachusetts. His work has appeared in two chapbooks and in such publications as Poetry, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Best of the Net, and The Best American Poetry. The recipient of the 2016 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, he has been awarded fellowships from Kundiman, the Saltonstall Foundation, Lambda Literary, and in 2015, he was a finalist for the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships. He earned his BA at Hampshire College and his MFA at Syracuse University. Currently, he is pursuing a PhD in English and Creative Writing at Texas Tech University. Chen lives in Lubbock, Texas, with his partner, Jeff Gilbert, and their pug dog, Rupert Giles."--,Provided by amazon.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Chen, C., & Brown, J. (2017). When I grow up I want to be a list of further possibilities (First edition.). BOA Editions Limited.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Chen, Chen, 1989- and Jericho, Brown. 2017. When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities. BOA Editions Limited.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Chen, Chen, 1989- and Jericho, Brown. When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities BOA Editions Limited, 2017.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Chen, Chen, and Jericho Brown. When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities First edition., BOA Editions Limited, 2017.

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