Machine generated contents note: Birth/Right. 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.
Summary:
"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."-- Provided by publisher.
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