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An Authentic Life
Paperback
Publisher Price: $19.00
ISBN13: 9781556596995
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: Oct 15 2024
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Awards: Pulitzer Prize
2025 Pulitzer Prize Finalist
2024 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
2026 Kingsley Tufts Award WINNER
An Authentic Life is an exacting and fearless interrogation of the education one receives from the institutions of academia and family.
Sprawling yet urgent, meditative yet lucid, the poems in Jennifer Chang's anticipated third collection, An Authentic Life, offer a bold examination of a world deeply influenced by war and patriarchy. In dialogues against literature, against philosophy, and against God, Chang interrogates the fathers who stand at the center of history. Poems navigate wounds opened by explorations of family and generational trauma, and draw on the author's experiences as a mother, as the daughter of immigrants, and as a citizen of our deeply divided nation.
Here, the patriarchal violence of history becomes intimate, brought down to a domestic scale. A woman sweeping the floor cannot escape thoughts of war, or her dying mother, while another scene shows friends questioning the despite-ness of love. In poems where the lyric is reimagined as porous, discursive, and bursting open, Chang fearlessly confronts the forms of knowledge that hold power. Meticulous and masterful, An Authentic Life creates a world where we can begin to unlearn everything.
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