Harmless Medicine
by Justin Chin
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Fiercely devoted to the margins of life in the generation after the devastating first wave of the AIDS epidemic, this cathartic collection of poems explores illness, travel, contagion, the meaning of home, identity, tainted purity, and the bits of life that contain them and hold them together in spite of the harsh exigency of daily life. In more than 40 pieces, Chin fearlessly delivers everything from his first exposure to science ("Magnified") to a mail order fantasy experience ("I Buy show more SeaMonkeys"); from backroads travel in Asia ("Little Everest in Your Palm") to the plight of immigrants in America ("The Men's Restroom at the INS Building"). Chin's brutal honesty and sharp humor frame a profound and original collection. show lessTags
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Justin Chin was born in Malaysia in 1969. He attended the University of Hawaii. He moved to San Francisco in the early 1990s and became part of the spoken-word scene. His poetry collections included Bite Hard, Harmless Medicine, and Gutted, which won the Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award for Poetry. He also wrote several essay collections show more including Attack of the Man-Eating Lotus Blossoms, Burden of Ashes, and Mongrel: Essays, Diatribes, and Pranks and the story collection 98 Wounds. He died after suffering a stroke on December 24, 2015 at the age of 46. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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