1. Leaving Biddle City
- Author
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Marianne Chan and Marianne Chan
- Subjects
- Marginality, Social--Poetry, Memory--Poetry, Suburbs--Poetry, Filipino Americans--Poetry, Coming of age--Poetry, Conflict of generations--Poetry
- Abstract
A brand new collection from award-winning poet Marianne Chan. A coming-of-age narrative, Leaving Biddle City details one Filipina American speaker's experience of growing up amid a white, Midwestern suburbia mythologized as “Biddle City.” Through prose poems, pantoums, ballads, flattened haikus, and thematic autobiographies, Chan maps a territory of intergenerational conflict, racial alienation, and memory and forgetfulness. What's achieved is a work of play and meticulous beauty, a collection that reframes how we may understand ourselves, our histories, and the places where we are from.
- Published
- 2024