Ken Chen is the 2009 winner of the annual Yale Younger Poets
competition. These poems of maturation chronicle the poet's
relationship with his immigrant family and his unknowing attempt to
recapture the unity of youth through comically doomed love affairs
that evaporate before they start. Hungrily eclectic, the wry and
emotionally piercing poems in this collection steal the forms of
the shooting script, blues song, novel, memoir, essay, logical
disputation, aphorism--even classical Chinese poetry in
translation. But as contest judge Louise Gluck notes in her
foreword, "The miracle of this book is the degree to which Ken Chen
manages to be both exhilaratingly modern (anti-catharsis,
anti-epiphany) while at the same time never losing his attachment
to voice, and the implicit claims of voice: these are poems of
intense feeling. . . . Like only the best poets, Ken Chen makes
with his voice a new category."
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