| Description |
79 pages ; 23 cm |
| Summary |
"Explores the vulnerable ways we articulate and reckon with fear: fear of intergenerational trauma and the silent, hidden histories of families. What does it mean to grow up in a take-out restaurant, surrounded by food, just a generation after the Great Leap Forward famine in 1958-62. Full of elegy and resilient joy, these poems speak across generations of survival. How much of the world do we fear? How can we find comfort and ancestral power in this fear?"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Mad -- Everything -- An Altar -- Frontier -- Tenants -- What I Tell Myself before I Sleep -- A Cosmology -- Frontier -- Cactus -- What I Tell Myself after Waking Up with Fists -- I Put on My Fur Coat -- Lessons on Lessening -- After My Father Leaves, My Mother Opens the Windows -- Dream of the Lopsided Crown -- When You Died -- After He Travels through Ash, My Grandfather Speaks -- Frontier -- I Haul a House out of the Bay -- How to Not Be Afraid of Everything -- What Is Love if Not Rot -- Beet -- Wrong June -- Egg -- Unkindly Kind -- Notes for the Interior -- Long Labors. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- Asian American authors.
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American poetry -- Asian American authors. |
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American poetry -- Women authors.
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American poetry -- Women authors. |
| Genre/Form |
Poetry.
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Poetry.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Wong, Jane, How to not be afraid of everything Farmington, ME : Alice James Books, 2022. 9781948579452 (DLC) 2021010188 |
| ISBN |
9781948579216 paperback |
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1948579219 paperback |
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9781948579452 electronic book |
| Standard No. |
40030780397 |
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