Gutted - Justin Chin
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Gutted
Justin Chin
6x9, 140 Pages, Trade Paper
ISBN-10: 1933149078
ISBN-13: 978-1933149073
Poetry/GLBT/Asian Studies
Manic D Press
Winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Poetry
Lambda Award Award Finalist
"Even as Chin's poems confront and try to comprehend death, they burst with urgent, vibrant life." —Out magazine
While trying to make sense of this ever-churning world, poet Justin Chin found himself travelling back and forth home to SE Asia—a region unnerved and raging with SARS and the Avian Flu—to help care for his father who had suddenly taken ill, all while dealing with his own health annoyances, and a looming U.S. citizenship test. At the beginning of this difficult period, he quietly vowed not to speak about his troubles until they had been suitably resolved. These poems mark the end of that resolution, and is a document of growing older, grief, loss, comfort and illness, and resolve. As ever, these poems are infected with Chin's screwy perspective, ever-defective grace and scabrous humor.
Justin Chin
6x9, 140 Pages, Trade Paper
ISBN-10: 1933149078
ISBN-13: 978-1933149073
Poetry/GLBT/Asian Studies
Manic D Press
Winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Poetry
Lambda Award Award Finalist
"Even as Chin's poems confront and try to comprehend death, they burst with urgent, vibrant life." —Out magazine
While trying to make sense of this ever-churning world, poet Justin Chin found himself travelling back and forth home to SE Asia—a region unnerved and raging with SARS and the Avian Flu—to help care for his father who had suddenly taken ill, all while dealing with his own health annoyances, and a looming U.S. citizenship test. At the beginning of this difficult period, he quietly vowed not to speak about his troubles until they had been suitably resolved. These poems mark the end of that resolution, and is a document of growing older, grief, loss, comfort and illness, and resolve. As ever, these poems are infected with Chin's screwy perspective, ever-defective grace and scabrous humor.
