Home Feed
Home
Search
Search
Add Review, Blurb, Quote
Add
Activity
Activity
Profile
Profile
How to Not be Afraid of Everything
How to Not be Afraid of Everything | Jane Wong
3 posts | 2 read
"Explores the vulnerable ways we articulate and reckon with fear: fear of intergenerational trauma and the silent, hidden histories of families. What does it mean to grow up in a take-out restaurant, surrounded by food, just a generation after the Great Leap Forward famine in 1958-62. Full of elegy and resilient joy, these poems speak across generations of survival. How much of the world do we fear? How can we find comfort and ancestral power in this fear?"--
Amazon Indiebound Barnes and Noble WorldCat Goodreads LibraryThing
Pick icon
100%
review
AshleyHoss820
post image
Pickpick

I‘m not one of those people that can give a glittering review of poetry, but I can tell you this was a nice book with which to spend my time. There were some poems I read twice, just to let them sink in. Definitely worth the read.

review
sakeriver
Pickpick

I feel a lot of rage in these poems. And guilt at times, too. And a reaching, toward times, places, people, memories. And how the words are so often interrupted by punctuation—dash, colon, period—or caesura or stanza or line, but also how often the interruption is simultaneously a bridge. And how much in the body these poems are. It‘s really quite something.

blurb
sakeriver
post image

Next

TiredLibrarian Great cover! 3y
sakeriver @TiredLibrarian Isn‘t it gorgeous? 🙂 3y
1 like2 comments