The language we were never taught to speak
Book - 2021
"This collection of poetry explores an immigrant woman's lived experiences, from coming out to a deeply religious mother, to idolizing the "bad boy" of the NBA, to understanding how to relate to her ever-changing Chinese-Canadian identity. A meditation on family, food, and falling in love, Escape Artist reveals how the stories of immigrants in Canada contain both universal truths and singular nuances."--
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- Genres
- Poetry
- Published
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Hamilton, ON ; Tonawanda, N.Y. :
Guernica Editions
2021.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First edition
- Item Description
- Poems.
"Toronto, Chicago, Buffalo, Lancaster (U.K.)."
"Elana Wolff, editor"--Title page verso. - Physical Description
- viii, 81 pages ; 21 cm
- ISBN
- 9781771835879
- Machine generated contents note: When Yuhua Hamasaki Went Home
- Sparks
- Going Home
- In the Name of Love
- The Next Time You Scold My Body
- Letter to Longing
- How to Get over the Fear of Public Speaking
- The Lies That Bind
- At Your Best
- Family Vacation
- In a Silicon Valley Coffee Shop, Elon, Mark, and Jeff Talk about Their Dreams
- 21st-century Hustle Culture: Interim Research Paper
- My Grief Is a Winter
- 3 a.m. Communion
- My Grandmother's Wallpaper
- My Body Is a Vessel
- Ginseng, Winter Melon, Lotus Root
- They Tell Me God Lives
- Into the Spell
- Oscar Wilde's Last Prayer
- The Look of Love, as Seen by Eve Polastri
- The Day Before Christmas
- The Perfect Groupie
- The Levity
- An Old Magic
- Pedicure at Pinky's
- Solidarity
- I Don't Hear Cantonese in Chinatown Anymore
- Another god
- What I Learned from Growing Plants
- Escape Artist
- Questions of Spirit
- Red Lips
- Remedy
- Mi Cayito
- Common Salt
- I've Hung Dead Flowers
- Red and Yellow
- An Instruction Manual for Falling in Love
- Birth/Right.