Slant
Sharp, accessible and witty, Slant offers a fresh exploration of issues of race, sexuality, and life in the global village. The collection alternates between three main themes of childhood and family in the Chinese diaspora; gay sexuality, community and rites-of-passage; and voyages literal and metaphorical. Slant asks how do we belong? and answers in a voice that is compelling and unique.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0889711798
ISBN13:9780889711792
Release Date:January 2001
Publisher:Nightwood Editions
Length:112 Pages
Weight:0.40 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.7" x 8.4"
Customer Reviews
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Souvenirs
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
Poetry when it works speaks intimatley to our personal experiences in a language we didn't know we understood. Andy Quan acheives this and more in Slant his first published collection of poems. It isn't easy to avoid the snare of identity politics in considering Quan's work.Canadian born, of Chinese descent this young gay poet has many hands he could play however his poetry wonderfully resonates to the cards we have all been dealt. The feeling of being a stranger, the exhiliration/terror of leaving the familiar behind be it a place or a person, the sudden wonder at our origins brought on by the death of a grandparent,the first night spent in a strange bed with an unfamiliar body. All of these and other experiences are unpacked like the souvenirs of a long journey, dusted and polished by Quan's extraordinary use of words and presented to us for inspection, inevidably causing us to say, Oh I've been there too. Such a young poet who has travelled so far surely has many more travel tales to tell. I look forward to hearing them.
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