Prescribee

An arch, precise collection of poems that casts world-historical hierarchies in an aspic mold and serves them back to us on a warped platter.

Reading Prescribee is not dissimilar to the experience of coming across a recipe in a vintage American cookbook: it transforms the familiar ingredients of contemporary life into an uncanny, discomfiting concoction. Wielding English as a foreign language and medium, Chang redefines the history of Taiwan and captures the alienation of immigrant experience with a startlingly original voice. Flouting tired expectations of race, gender, nationality, and citizen status, Prescribee is as provocative as it is perceptive, as playful as it is sobering.

Author: Chia-Lun Chang
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Published: 11/15/2022
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.30w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781643621517
Language: English