{"product_id":"return-of-the-chinese-femme-9781646053100","title":"Return of the Chinese Femme","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn unabashed exploration of queerness, excess, identity, and tenderness from award-winning poet Dorothy Chan.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe speaker in Dorothy Chan's fifth collection, \u003ci\u003eReturn of the Chinese Femme\u003c\/i\u003e, walks through life fearlessly, \"forehead forever exposed,\" the East Asian symbol of female aggression. She's the troublemaker protagonist--the \"So Chinese Girl\"--the queer in a family of straights-- the rambunctious ringleader of the girl band, always ready with the perfect comeback, wearing a blue fur coat, drinking a whiskey neat. They indulge on the themes of food, sex, fantasy, fetish, popular culture, and intimacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eChan organizes the collection in the form of a tasting menu, offering the reader a taste of each running theme. Triple sonnets, recipe poems, and other inventive plays on diction and form pepper the collection. Amidst the bravado, \u003ci\u003eReturn of the Chinese Femme \u003c\/i\u003erepresents all aspects of her identity--Asian heritage, queerness, kid of immigrants' story--in the most real ways possible, conquering the world through joy and resilience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDorothy Chan\u003c\/b\u003e (she\/they) is the author of multiple poetry collections, including \u003ci\u003eBABE\u003c\/i\u003e (Diode Editions, 2021), \u003ci\u003eRevenge of the Asian Woman\u003c\/i\u003e (Diode Editions, 2019), \u003ci\u003eAttack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold\u003c\/i\u003e (Spork Press, 2018), and the chapbook \u003ci\u003eChinatown Sonnets\u003c\/i\u003e (New Delta Review, 2017). They were a 2023 finalist for the Roethke Poetry Award for Revenge of the Asian Woman, 2022 finalist for the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize from the New England Poetry Club for \u003ci\u003eBABE\u003c\/i\u003e, a 2020 and 2014 finalist for the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation, a 2020 finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Bisexual Poetry for \u003ci\u003eRevenge of the Asian Woman\u003c\/i\u003e, and a 2019 recipient of the Philip Freund Prize in Creative Writing from Cornell University. Their work has appeared in \u003ci\u003ePOETRY\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe American Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAcademy of American Poets\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eChan is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Book Reviews Co-Editor of \u003ci\u003ePleiades\u003c\/i\u003e, and Co-Founder and Editor in Chief of Honey Literary Inc., a 501(c)(3) BIPOC literary arts organization, run by women, femme, and queer editors of color. Chan was the 2021 Resident Artist for Toward One Wisconsin. They were a 2022 recipient of the University of Wisconsin System's Dr. P.B. Poorman Award for Outstanding Achievement on Behalf of LGBTQ People. Visit their website at dorothypoetry.com\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Deep Vellum Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50629155750162,"sku":"9781646053100","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a2a841d7-0f1c-409f-bdc8-488fe075f58c.jpg?v=1732722307","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/return-of-the-chinese-femme-9781646053100","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}