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- ISBN 9781956046298
- Dimensions: 139 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 12 Sep 2024
- Publisher: Sarabande Books, Incorporated
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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A brand new collection from award-winning poet Marianne Chan.
A coming-of-age narrative, Leaving Biddle City details one Filipina American speaker’s experience of growing up amid a white, Midwestern suburbia mythologized as “Biddle City.” Through prose poems, pantoums, ballads, flattened haikus, and thematic autobiographies, Chan maps a territory of intergenerational conflict, racial alienation, and memory and forgetfulness. What’s achieved is a work of play and meticulous beauty, a collection that reframes how we may understand ourselves, our histories, and the places where we are from.
Marianne Chan grew up in Stuttgart, Germany, and Lansing, Michigan. She is the author of All Heathens (Sarabande Books, 2020), which was the winner of the 2021 GLCA New Writers Award in Poetry, the 2021 Ohioana Book Award in Poetry, and the 2022 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award in Poetry. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, New England Review, Kenyon Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. A Kundiman Fellow, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing & Literature from the University of Cincinnati.
