{"product_id":"alien-miss","title":"Alien Miss","description":"In her stunning second collection, Carlina Duan illuminates unabashed odes to lineage, small and sacred moments of survival, and the demand to be fully seen 'spangling with light.' Tracing familial lore and love, Duan reflects on the experience of growing up as a diasporic, bilingual daughter of immigrants, exploring the fraught complexities of identity, belonging, and linguistic reclamation. \u003ci\u003eAlien Miss\u003c\/i\u003e brings forth beautifully powerful voices: immigrants facing the Chinese Exclusion Act, the first Chinese American woman to vote, and matriarchal ancestors. The poems in this ambitious collection are immersed in the knotted blood of sisterhood, both celebrating and challenging conceptions of inheritance and homeland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI browse through\u003cbr\u003earchives full of men and women with long black hair,\u003cbr\u003ethrowing themselves into the land. thread of grass. thread\u003cbr\u003eof immaculate touch. paper son, or paper\u003cbr\u003edaughter. my own papers marked with wings, the pointed\u003cbr\u003etip of an eagle's beak. here, I'm made prey.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI pledge allegiance.\u003c\/i\u003e-Excerpt from 'Alien Miss Confronts the Author'","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54250026991960,"sku":"9780299331344","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780299331344.jpg?v=1777882519","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/alien-miss","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}