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Ching-In Chen/Shiny City ;Cover design: Kenji C. Liu
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Explore the compelling poetry of Ching-In Chen in 'Shiny City,' a thought-provoking collection published by Airlie Press. This paperback offers a unique blend of diverse perspectives, brought to life through vivid and evocative language. Featuring a vibrant cover design by Kenji C. Liu, this book is a striking addition to any poetry enthusiast's collection.
About the Book:
Ching-In Chen’s Shiny City examines the “real” and imagined history of Riverside, California’s Chinatown, juxtaposed with a speculative shiny city of the global future. Word by word, syntax by syntax, Chen projects the essential and unrecorded voices of the Chinese immigrants who picked and packed fruit in Riverside’s citrus groves and worked as house servants in the late 1800’s through the 1930’s, as well as the travelers and inhabitants of “shiny city” as they navigate its accelerated process of growth and decay. Both experimental and narrative, these poems juxtapose found texts with a singular kind of imagining: through a wild love, and despite an incomplete and fragmented archive, Shiny City reconstructs its own kind of history with beauty that emerges from between the cracks.
About the Author:
Ching-In Chen is a genderqueer Chinese American writer, community organizer and teacher. They are author of recombinant (2018 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry), The Heart's Traffic: a novel in poems; and Shiny City as well as chapbooks to make black paper sing and Kundiman for Kin :: Information Retrieval for Monsters (Leslie Scalapino Finalist). Chen is co-editor of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities.
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