What happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in
times of need are themselves calling out for rescue? In his highly
anticipated second collection, Chen Chen continues his exploration
of family, both blood and chosen, examining what one inherits and
what one invents, as a queer Asian American living through an era
of Trump, mass shootings and the COVID-19 pandemic. With unexpected
playfulness and irrepressible humour, these anarchic poems
celebrate life, despite all that would crush aliveness. Hybrid in
form and set in New England, West Texas and a landlocked province
of China, among other places, Your Emergency Contact Has
Experienced an Emergency refuses neat categorisations and pat
answers. Instead, the book offers an insatiable curiosity about how
it is we keep finding ways to hold one another. Chen Chen's debut
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities was
published in the UK by Bloodaxe in 2019.
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