Juvenilia

by Ken Chen

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300160089
• ISBN13: 9780300160086
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 78 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.0"