Title

Peach state / Adrienne Su ; Ed Ochester, editor.

Author

Su, Adrienne, 1967-

Publication

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2021]

Details

Additional Authors

Ochester, Ed,

Description

101 pages; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Pitt poetry series

Uniform Title

Pitt poetry series.

Alternative Title

Peach state : poems

Subjects

• Poetry
• 2000-2099
• Georgia > Atlanta
• American poetry > 21st century
• Atlanta (Ga.) > Poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry.

Contents

Elements. Substitutions ; Ginger ; My mother's pantry ; Serve immediately ; Lychee express ; On the recommendation that American adults consume ; No more than one-quarter cup of rice, twice a week ; Kiwifruit ; After the dinner party ; The Jews of Kaifeng ; The end of meat ; When I said I grew up speaking no Chinese, I was forgetting these words -- Small eats. Instant ramen ; Chicken corn soup ; Home baker ; Home economics ; Consommé ; The lazy Susan ; White rabbit ; Tea eggs ; Peaches ; Maple syrup ; The chow-mein years in Atlanta -- Your table should be round. Egg roll ; Across-the-bridge noodles ; You're from the South? ; Abundance ; Not dogs ; Not your grandmother's Sunday dinner ; Correspondence ; No trespassing ; Sizzling rice soup ; I didn't know aiiieeeee, but It knew me -- Everything that can be eaten ; Senior center menu ; Long-term care -- Never mind, let's go out ; Chinese restaurant syndrome -- Xiaolongbao -- Peking duck three ways ; Name that restaurant ; Holothurian ; The tradition ; Peking garden ; Elegy for the mall ; Latin Club always had pizza -- Desserts and drinks. Black sesame ; Buford Highway ; Red bean soup ; That almond dessert ; My life in peaches ; Personal history ; Ancestors ; Even when you die and go to heaven, you have to change planes in Atlanta ; Wakefulness ; Oolong ; Savory versus sweet ; Doughnuts ; An hour later, you're hungry again.

ISBN

• 0822966565
• 9780822966562

Author

Su, Adrienne, 1967- author.

Title

Peach state / Adrienne Su ; Ed Ochester, editor.

Publisher

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Pitt poetry series

Pitt poetry series.

Summary

"Peach State has its origins in Atlanta, Georgia, the author's hometown and an emblematic city of the New South, a name that reflects the American region's invigoration in recent decades by immigration and a spirit of reinvention. Focused mainly on food and cooking, these poems explore the city's transformation from the mid-twentieth century to today, as seen and shaped by Chinese Americans. The poems are set in restaurants, home kitchens, grocery stores, and the houses of friends and neighbors. Often employing forms--sonnet, villanelle, sestina, palindrome, ghazal, rhymed stanzas--they also mirror the constant negotiation with tradition that marks both immigrant and Southern experience"-- Publisher's website.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Added Author

Ochester, Ed, editor.

Added Title

Peach state : poems

Branch Call Number

811 SU