"Explores the vulnerable ways we articulate and reckon with fear: fear of intergenerational trauma and the silent, hidden histories of families. What does it mean to grow up in a take-out restaurant, surrounded by food, just a generation after the Great Leap Forward famine in 1958-62. Full of elegy and resilient joy, these poems speak across generations of survival. How much of the world do we fear? How can we find comfort and ancestral power in this fear?"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: Mad -- Everything -- An Altar -- The Frontier -- Tenants -- What I Tell Myself before I Sleep -- A Cosmology -- The Frontier -- The Cactus -- What I Tell Myself after Waking Up with Fists -- I Put on My Fur Coat -- Lessons on Lessening -- After My Father Leaves, My Mother Opens the Windows -- Dream of the Lopsided Crown -- When You Died -- After He Travels through Ash, My Grandfather Speaks -- The Frontier -- I Haul a House out of the Bay -- How to Not Be Afraid of Everything -- What Is Love if Not Rot -- The Beet -- Wrong June -- The Egg -- Unkindly Kind -- Notes for the Interior -- The Long Labors.
