Hybrida : poems / Tina Chang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chang, Tina, author.

Contributor:

Class of 1932 Fund.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race relations.

United States--Race relations--Poetry.

United States.

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

x, 133 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]

Summary:

"A timely, stirring, and confident examination of mixed- race identity, violence, and history skillfully rendered through the lens of motherhood. In Hybrida, Tina Chang confronts the complexities of raising a mixed-race child during an era of political upheaval in the United States. She ruminates on the relationship between her son's blackness and his safety, exploring the dangers of childhood in a post-Trayvon Martin era by invoking racialized roles in fairy tales. Meditating on the lives of Michael Brown, Leiby Kletzky, and Noemi Álvarez Quillay--lost at the hands of individuals entrusted to protect them--Chang creates hybrid poetic forms that mirror her investigation of racial tensions. Hybrida is a twenty-first-century tale that is equal parts a mother's love and her fury, an ambitious and revelatory exploration of identity"-- Provided by publisher.

"A timely, stirring, and confident examination of mixed- race identity, violence, and history skillfully rendered through the lens of motherhood. In Hybrida, Tina Chang confronts the complexities of raising a mixed-race child during an era of political upheaval in the United States. She ruminates on the relationship between her son's blackness and his safety, exploring the dangers of childhood in a post-Trayvon Martin era by invoking racialized roles in fairy tales. Meditating on the lives of Michael Brown, Leiby Kletzky, and Noemi Álvarez Quillay--lost at the hands of individuals entrusted to protect them--Chang creates hybrid poetic forms that mirror her investigation of racial tensions. Hybrida is a twenty-first-century tale that is equal parts a mother's love and her fury, an ambitious and revelatory exploration of identity"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

He, pronoun

Creation myth

Patience

She, as painter

Mankind is so fallible

Milk

Revolutionary kiss

Fury

Hybrida: a zuihitsu

Long shadow

Every Grimm

Storm

Astroturf

Obedience, authority

Boy with pavement, a painting

4 portraits

Diversity

Timeline for a body: 4 hours, 6 bullets

War cloud

Bitch

At the end of the road was a sun

Theory of war

A poem called politics

Freedom ghazal

Vivid isolation

The shifting kingdom

276

Devil

Fever ghazal

Burial, a lullaby

Prophecy

Color

Roman's epilogue.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

9781324002482

1324002484

OCLC:

1053989042