Leaving Biddle City

By: Chan, Marianne

A brand new collection from award-winning poet Marianne Chan.

A coming-of-age narrative, Leaving Biddle City details one Filipina American speaker's experience of growing up amid a white, Midwestern suburbia mythologized as "Biddle City." Through prose poems, pantoums, ballads, flattened haikus, and thematic autobiographies, Chan maps a territory of intergenerational conflict, racial alienation, and memory and forgetfulness. What's achieved is a work of play and meticulous beauty, a collection that reframes how we may understand ourselves, our histories, and the places where we are from.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1956046291
• ISBN13: 9781956046298
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Sarabande Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"