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Paperback Tell It Slant Book

ISBN: 1632431254

ISBN13: 9781632431257

Tell It Slant

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Poems that consider doubleness and truth-telling through the voice of an Asian American poet, while referencing a range of writers and pop culture figures.

Emily Dickinson begins one of her poems with the oft-quoted line, "Tell all the truth but tell it slant." For Asian Americans, the word "slant" can be heard and read two ways, as both a racializing and an obscuring term. It is this sense of doubleness--culminating in the instability...

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