Marilyn Chin: 5 books

Book cover of A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems
by Marilyn Chin
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018

A rich, illuminating compilation of selected and new poems from Marilyn Chin, "a poet of contradictions, poignant sentiment, beat-your-ass toughness, and unexpected humor" (Los Angeles Review of Books). Spanning thirty years of dazzling work—from luminous early love lyrics to often-anthologized...
Book cover of Hard Love Province: Poems
by Marilyn Chin
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2014

**Winner of the 2015 Anisfield-Wolf Prize for Poetry From a poet of "dazzling longing" (Los Angeles Times), a stunning new collection of haunting elegies and playful quatrains.** Marilyn Chin is a poet acclaimed by Adrienne Rich for her "powerful, uncompromised, and unerring"...
Book cover of Rhapsody in Plain Yellow: Poems
by Marilyn Chin
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2003

A fusion of east and west, high culture, popular culture, and ancient Chinese history mark this distinguished collection. Marilyn Chin, with her multilayered, multidimensional, intercultural singing, elegizes the loss of her mother and maternal grandmother and tries to unravel the complexities...
Book cover of Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen: A Novel
by Marilyn Chin
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2009

An uproarious debut that lays bare the complicated generational relationships of Chinese American women. Raucous twin sisters Moonie and Mei Ling Wong are known as the “double happiness” Chinese food delivery girls. Each day they load up a “crappy donkey-van” and deliver Americanized...
Book cover of Go Home!
by Alexander Chee, Chang-Rae Lee, Marilyn Chin
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018

“The notion of home has always been elusive. But as evidenced in these stories, poems, and testaments, perhaps home is not so much a place, but a feeling one embodies. I read this book and see my people—see us—and feel, in our collective outsiderhood, at home.” —Ocean Vuong, author of Night...
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