An Authentic Life
Jennifer Chang
Belletristik / Lyrik, Dramatik
Beschreibung
An Authentic Life is an exacting and fearless interrogation of the education one receives from the institutions of academia and family.
Here, the patriarchal violence of history becomes intimate, brought down to a domestic scale. A woman sweeping the floor cannot escape thoughts of war, or her dying mother, while another scene shows friends questioning the “despite-ness” of love. In poems where the lyric is reimagined as porous, discursive, and bursting open, Chang fearlessly confronts the forms of knowledge that hold power. Meticulous and masterful, An Authentic Life creates a world where we can begin “to unlearn everything.”
Kundenbewertungen
solitude, patriarchy, poetry, fathers, relationships, loss, trees, rage, parenting, urban, feminism, love, William Carlos Williams Award, philosophy, pandemic, violence, Family, seasons, grief, contemporary, memory, Washington D.C., generational trauma, mythology, nature, death, time, children, mental health, ode, Asian American, elegy, war, suicide