Heart's Traffic

by Ching-In Chen

"Ching-In Chen's first book, The Heart's Traffic, constructs a re-naming, a caterwaul call to arms to attend to an archipelago of hybrid identity: political, sexual and always love-persuaded. Here the father is temporary, the mother is dead-alive and girls are writing tiger-legends through sestina, haibun, and the lost letters that must be reinvented if we can understand this new American body. The author necessarily offers up her riddles...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0980040728
• ISBN13: 9780980040722
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Arktoi Books
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.9" x 8.9"