An Authentic Life

An Authentic Life

Paperback (28 Nov 2024)

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Publisher's Synopsis

  • Central themes include the Asian American experience, feminism, mental health, motherhood, and contemporary twist on classical mythology
  • Chang is fascinated by fairy tales and mythology, and even wrote a verbatim line from Little Red Riding Hood without knowing it in one of her poems until she reread the Brothers Grimm and realized she had stolen the line!
  • Chang has a PhD from University of Virginia and wrote her dissertation on race and the modernist pastoral. 
  • Chang taught at George Washington University, Bennington, and Michener Center for Writers
  • Chang won the 2018 William Carlos Williams Award
  • Potential audiences: Lovers of Asian American/Chinese poetry; stories of immigration, mental illness, and mythology; feminist poetry; and poetry on motherhood, parent-child relationships, and generational trauma.

Book information

ISBN: 9781556596995
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Imprint: Copper Canyon Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 811.6
DEWEY edition: 23/eng/20240308
Language: English
Number of pages: 112
Weight: -1g
Height: 152mm
Width: 229mm