Wo Chan

This collection has an informal cyclical structure that circles around a few themes/events:
* community letters of support for the Chen family and their restaurant for immigration/citizenship status
* the show Chopped
* struggles with mental health

Throughout are themes of queerness, the profane, nature, family, generational immigrant identity, but the above three are touchstones that are returned to again and again.

Favorite poems were "Your First Apartment in New York" —

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sort of Divine Right? For rice? Actual rice?

and "August Moments" and their relationship to their mother.

This collection was lovely, uneasy, funny, surprising, familiar. show less