Thanks for Letting Us Know You Are Alive: Poems

by Jennifer Tseng

Crafted with lines from her late father's letters, Jennifer Tseng's Thanks for Letting Us Know You Are Alive is a portrait of an immigrant, a rootless person whose unspoken loss--that of his native geography, family, traditions, language--underlies every word. Though her father's first language was Mandarin, for more than twenty years he wrote these letters in English, so that she could understand them. Some are riddled with errors, some...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625348088
• ISBN13: 9781625348081
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.3"