Critical Acclaim for Sherry Quan Lee's "Chinese Blackbird"
"Quan Lee eloquently expresses how painful and confusing it can be
to embrace the many complex identities that one body can contain.
With evocative imagery and words that cut straight to the heart,
Quan Lee details her lifelong struggles with both the vagaries and
concreteness of race, class, gender and sexual identity. Her guilt
and shame are palpable. But so too are her emotional and
intellectual triumphs. Like a favorite sad song when we have been
dumped by the love of our lives, this volume will be oddly
comforting to anyone who has ever been overcome by that sorrow
which seems insurmountable."
--Eden Torres, Assistant Professor Women's Studies, Chicano
Studies, University of Minnesota
"It's been a long time since I've been treated to a voice so full
of honesty about one's struggle to come to terms with her identity.
Through elegant poetry, full of exquisite imagery and detail, Quan
Lee takes the reader on her personal, transformative journey in
which she explores how race, class, gender and sexual identity
inform who she is. Along the way, she encounters rocks and boulders
that would have stopped many of us. Instead, she turns them over
and examines the creatures hiding in the darkness underneath,
leaving no stone on her path unturned. Quan Lee is a courageous
woman. She is one of my sheroes."
--Carolyn Holbrook, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dept. of English,
Founder and past Artistic/Executive Director of SASE: The Write
Place
"In Chinese Blackbird, Sherry Quan Lee renders stories of her
complex cultural heritage with the lyrical touch of a poet coming
into self-possession. Through the generative power of language, Lee
creates an inspirational and a multifarious self. This self blows
breath unto the page and into the reader, who may have felt
quiescent or invisible, often feeling forced to choose among
various enriching worlds, until she experiences the truth that only
good literature can unveil about the joys and struggles of defining
oneself on one's terms."
--Pamela R. Fletcher, Associate Professor of English Co-Director
of Critical Studies in Race and Ethnicity, College of St. Catherine
Learn more about the author at www.SherryQuanLee.com
Book #3 in the Reflections of History Series from Modern History
Press www.ModernHistoryPress.com
Modern History Press is an imprint of Loving Healing Press
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