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The language we were never taught to speak
- Title
- The language we were never taught to speak / Grace Lau.
- Author
- Lau, Grace, 1989-
- Publication
- Hamilton, ON ; Tonawanda, N.Y. : Guernica Editions, 2021.
- ©2021
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 21-3432 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Wolff, Elana
- Description
- viii, 81 pages; 21 cm.
- 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."--
- Series Statement
- First poets series ; 21
- Uniform Title
- First poets series (Toronto, Ont.) ; 21.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Poetry.
- Note
- Poems.
- "Toronto, Chicago, Buffalo, Lancaster (U.K.)".
- "Elana Wolff, editor"--Title page verso.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: When Yuhua Hamasaki Went Home -- 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.
- Call Number
- JFD 21-3432
- ISBN
- 9781771835879
- 1771835877
- LCCN
- 2020947890
- OCLC
- 1179266851
- Author
- Lau, Grace, 1989- author.
- Title
- The language we were never taught to speak / Grace Lau.
- Publisher
- Hamilton, ON ; Tonawanda, N.Y. : Guernica Editions, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- First poets series ; 21First poets series (Toronto, Ont.) ; 21.
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Added Author
- Wolff, Elana, editor.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 21-3432