Your Emergency Contact has Experienced an Emergency by Chen Chen

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Your Emergency Contact has Experienced an Emergency by Chen ChenWhat happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves calling out for rescue? In his highly anticipated second collection, Chen Chen continues his investigation of family, both blood and chosen, examining what one inherits and what one invents, as a queer Asian American living through an era of Trump, mass shootings, and the COVID 19 pandemic. Always at work in the wrecked heart of this new collection is a

Tropical Sacrifice is a wishbone against a fascist heart/a prophetic

and formally ingenious

Her monostix lines are glitchy content streams

Driven by dreams of literary success

the tension between excellence and expectation

Little did he know his journey would take him to Wall Street on the day the stock market crashed

pain is always returned as a gift—the beautiful vulnerability of feeling

published in 1999

the sense of justice and humanity

syntax and line

avant-post take on what Poetry is

A wealth of vocabulary exists with which to talk about poetry in traditional formal terms