Prescribee

By Chia-Lun Chang and Chang Chia-Lun

An arch, precise collection of poems that casts world-historical hierarchies in an aspic mold and serves them back to us on a warped platter.Reading Prescribee is not dissimilar to the experience of coming across a recipe in a vintage American cookbook: it transforms the familiar ingredients of contemporary life into an uncanny, discomfiting concoction. Wielding English as a foreign language and medium, Chang redefines the history of Taiwan and captures the alienation of immigrant experience with a startlingly original voice. Flouting tired expectations of race, gender, nationality, and citizen status, Prescribee is as provocative as it is perceptive, as playful as it is sobering.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1643621513
• ISBN13: 9781643621517
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Nightboat Books
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.3"