Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency

Chen Chen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

152 Seiten

2022
Bloodaxe Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78037-623-3 (ISBN)

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What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves calling out for rescue? Chen Chen continues his exploration of family, both blood and chosen, examining what one inherits and what one invents, as a queer Asian American living through an era of Trump, mass shootings and the COVID-19 pandemic.

What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves calling out for rescue? In his highly anticipated second collection, Chen Chen continues his exploration of family, both blood and chosen, examining what one inherits and what one invents, as a queer Asian American living through an era of Trump, mass shootings and the COVID-19 pandemic. With unexpected playfulness and irrepressible humour, these anarchic poems celebrate life, despite all that would crush aliveness. Hybrid in form and set in New England, West Texas and a landlocked province of China, among other places, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency refuses neat categorisations and pat answers. Instead, the book offers an insatiable curiosity about how it is we keep finding ways to hold one another. Chen Chen's debut When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities was published in the UK by Bloodaxe in 2019.

Chen Chen was born in 1989 in Xiamen, China, and "grew up" in Massachusetts in the US. His first book-length collection, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA Editions, US, 2017; Bloodaxe Books, UK, 2019), was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, the Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) New Writers Award, the Texas Book Award for Poetry, and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. The book was also a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry and named a Stonewall Honor Book. He had previously published two chapbooks, Kissing the Sphinx (Two of Cups Press, 2016) and Set the Garden on Fire (Porkbelly Press, 2015). His work has been widely acclaimed in the US, with Poets & Writers Magazine featuring him in their Inspiration Issue as one of ‘Ten Poets Who Will Change the World’. His second collection, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency, is publshed by Bloodaxe Books in the UK and BOA Editions in the US in 2022. He earned his BA from Hampshire College and his MFA from Syracuse University, where he was a University Fellow, and is currently working on a PhD in English and Creative Writing through Texas Tech University as an off-site student and the recipient of a J.T. and Margaret Talkington Fellowship. He edits Underblong with the poet Sam Herschel Wein and serves as a contributing editor for Bettering American Poetry. Chen lives in frequently snowy Rochester, NY, with his partner, Jeff Gilbert and their pug dog, Mr Rupert Giles. He was the 2018-2020 Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.

I
A Favorite Room 13
Summer [I have a...] 14
Doctor’s Note 15
Higher Education 16
Summer [You are the...] 17
The School of Australia 18
Items May Have Shifted 20
The School of Morning & Letters 23
The School of Fury 25
Winter [The grackles flap...] 27
The School of Your Book / Letter to Jennifer S. Cheng 29
Study Abroad 31
we’ll be gone after these brief messages 33

II
Winter [Big smelly bowel...] 37
The School of Red 39
a small book of questions: chapter i 40
The School of More School 44
& then a student stands up, says, Are you serious? 45
a small book of questions: chapter ii 47
Winter [You become increasingly...] 49
Elegy While Listening to a Song I Can’t Help But
Start to Move to 50
a small book of questions: chapter iii 53
a small book of questions: chapter iv 54
a small book of questions: chapter v 56
One Year Later: A Letter 57
Summer [Your emergency contact...] 61
a small book of questions: chapter vi 62
a small book of questions: chapter vii 65
The School of Logic 67
The School of a Few or a Lot of My Favorite Things 69
a small book of questions: chapter viii 72

III
Origin Story 75
Winter [It’s April. But...] 77
In the World’s Italianest Restaurant 82
Summer [The sunflowers fall...] 85
Things the Grackles Bring 89
After My White Friend Says So Cool
Upon Hearing Me Speak Chinese... 90
Every Poem Is My Most Asian Poem 91
I am reminded via email to resubmit my preferences
for the schedule 92
four short essays personifying a future in which
white supremacy has ended 95
Chen No Middle Name Chen 98
The School of Song, Uno, & Dinnertime 99
One Year Later: Her Answer 102
The School of Keyboards & Our Whole Entire History
Up to the Present 103
Autumn 106

IV
I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party 111
ode to my beloveds & brevities 113
我疼你 115
The School of Night & Hyphens 119
Ode to Rereading Rimbaud in Lubbock, Texas 120
The School of You 122
Zombie Kindnesses 125
Lunar New Year 127
Spring 128
The School of Eternities 129
Spring Summer Autumn Winter 134
The School of the Unschoolable 136
The School of Joy / Letter to Michelle Lin 138

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Notes 144
Acknowledgments 145

Erscheinungsdatum	10.10.2022
Verlagsort	Tyne and Wear
Sprache	englisch
Maße	1780 x 229 mm
Gewicht	335 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
ISBN-10	1-78037-623-5 / 1780376235
ISBN-13	978-1-78037-623-3 / 9781780376233
Zustand	Neuware