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03119aam a2200469 i 4500 001 8E7FA0D8E23911EC9D80461122ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220602010055 008 200801t20212021onc 000 p eng 010 $a 2020947890 020 $a 1771835877 020 $a 9781771835879 035 $a (OCoLC)1179266851 040 $a NLC $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d NLC $d OCLCF $d TOH $d OCLCO $d VP@ $d YDX $d CPL $d OCLCO $d OCL $d PAU $d NLC $d NYP $d OCLCO $d OCL $d EAU $d UAB $d OCLCO $d CDX $d SILO 042 $a lac 043 $a n-cn--- 050 04 $a PR9199.4 L383 L3823 2021 050 4 $a PR9199.4 L383 L36 2021 050 4 $a PR9199.4 L3823 L36 2021 055 00 $a PS8623 A81653 L36 2021 084 $a cci1icc $2 lacc 100 1 $a Lau, Grace, $d 1989- $e author. 245 14 $a The language we were never taught to speak / $c Grace Lau. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Hamilton, ON ; $b Guernica Editions, $c 2021. 300 $a viii, 81 pages ; $c 21 cm. 490 1 $a First poets series ; $v 21 500 $a Poems. 500 $a "Toronto, Chicago, Buffalo, Lancaster (U.K.)." 500 $a "Elana Wolff, editor"--Title page verso. 505 00 $g Machine generated contents note: $t Birth/Right. $t Sparks -- $t Going Home -- $t In the Name of Love -- $t The Next Time You Scold My Body -- $t Letter to Longing -- $t How to Get over the Fear of Public Speaking -- $t The Lies That Bind -- $t At Your Best -- $t Family Vacation -- $t In a Silicon Valley Coffee Shop, Elon, Mark, and Jeff Talk about Their Dreams -- $t 21st-century Hustle Culture: Interim Research Paper -- $t My Grief Is a Winter -- $t 3 a.m. Communion -- $t My Grandmother's Wallpaper -- $t My Body Is a Vessel -- $t Ginseng, Winter Melon, Lotus Root -- $t They Tell Me God Lives -- $t Into the Spell -- $t Oscar Wilde's Last Prayer -- $t The Look of Love, as Seen by Eve Polastri -- $t The Day Before Christmas -- $t The Perfect Groupie -- $t The Levity -- $t An Old Magic -- $t Pedicure at Pinky's -- $t Solidarity -- $t I Don't Hear Cantonese in Chinatown Anymore -- $t Another god -- $t What I Learned from Growing Plants -- $t Escape Artist -- $t Questions of Spirit -- $t Red Lips -- $t Remedy -- $t Mi Cayito -- $t Common Salt -- $t I've Hung Dead Flowers -- $t Red and Yellow -- $t An Instruction Manual for Falling in Love -- $t Birth/Right. 520 $a "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."-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Immigrants $z Canada $v Poetry. 650 0 $a Identity (Psychology) $v Poetry. 650 0 $a Canadian poetry $y 21st century. 650 0 $a Chinese $z Canada $v Poetry. 700 1 $a Wolff, Elana, $e editor. 830 0 $a First poets series (Toronto, Ont.) ; $v 21. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230503012301.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8E7FA0D8E23911EC9D80461122ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search