Thanks for letting us know you are alive : poems / Jennifer Tseng.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tseng, Jennifer, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Juniper Prize for Poetry

Juniper prize for poetry

Language:

English

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry

Poetry.

Physical Description:

viii, 66 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2024.

Summary:

"Crafted with lines from her late father's letters, Jennifer Tseng's Thanks for Letting Us Know You Are Alive is a portrait of an immigrant, a rootless person whose unspoken loss-that of his native geography, family, traditions, language-underlies every word. Though her father's first language was Mandarin, for more than twenty years he wrote these letters in English, in theory so that she could understand them. His sentences are riddled with errors, some nearly unintelligible. Lines from his letters appear as titles and are scattered throughout the poems, blending voices of father and daughter. This collection enacts what it means to lose someone and commune with them simultaneously-the paradox of grief and all it gives us"-- Provided by publisher.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Tseng, Jennifer. Thanks for letting us know you are alive

ISBN:

9781625348081

1625348088

OCLC:

1402823093