When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
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In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family—the strained relationship between a mother and son, the cost of necessary goodbyes—all from Asian American, immigrant, and queer perspectives. Holding all accountable, this collection fully embraces the loss, grief, and abundant joy that come with charting one's own path in identity, life, and love.
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Chen Chen. (2017). When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities. BOA Editions Ltd.
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Starred review from March 27, 2017
Chen balances the politics surrounding shame and desire with hearty doses of joy, humor, and whimsy in his vibrant debut collection. To consider the titular act of growing up—to recognize what potential could mean—Chen must make sense of his past to imagine a better future in his poems. “I thought I could/ tell this story, give it a way out of itself,” he writes. To this end he recounts a personal history in which he playfully addresses deeply serious issues, particularly a longing to defy the fate prescribed to him by family members or others’ cultural ideas of normalcy: “I am not the heterosexual neat freak my mother raised me to be.” As a gay, Asian-American poet, Chen casts his poems as both a refusal of the shame of sexuality and of centering whiteness or treating it as a highly desirable trait. Readers encounter sharp, delightful turns between poems, as Chen shifts from elegy to ode and back again. He also toys with language, as when he mulls the plight of someone’s ill mother: “all I can think of is how sick’s/ also a word for ‘cool.’ ” Moving between whimsy and sobriety, Chen both exhibits and defies vulnerability—an acute reminder that there are countless further possibilities.
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Starred review from April 15, 2017
Visually vivid, erotic and intimate, at times bitingly funny, and refreshingly world-observant, Chen's poems are steeped in the pain of being other as both Asian American and gay. He's excellent at relating the confusion of childhood, recalling "Mom & Dad's/ idiot faces, yelling at me" as they confront his sexuality and grappling with the consequences of his heritage. The standout poem "First Light" enumerates many different, often outré ways Chen envisions having come to this country, embodying the kind of imagination it takes to adapt to a new culture. Throughout, there's ratcheted-up emotion yet an amazing command of language: "I carried in my snake mouth a boxful/ of carnal autobiographies" says the world. VERDICT An A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize winner; expansive work for expansive audiences.
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1
Self-Portrait as So Much Potential
In the Hospital
I'm not a religious person but
Things Stuck in Other Things Where They Don't Belong
Summer Was Forever
Race to the Tree
West of Schenectady
Self-Portrait With & Without
How I Became Sagacious
First Light
Elegy
Please take off your shoes before entering do not disturb
2
Song with a Lyric from Allen Ginsberg
Talented Human Beings
To the Guanacos at the Syracuse Zoo
Elegy for My Sadness
Ode to My Envy
Irreducible Sociality
Antarctica
I will miss the earth
Second Thoughts on a Winter Afternoon
In the City
The Cuckoo Cry
Didier et Zizou
Kafka's Axe & Michael's Vest
Poem
In Search of the Least Abandoned Constellation
Frog-Hopping Gravestones
Sorrow Song with Optimus Prime
3
for i will do/undo what was done/undone to me
In This Economy
Night falls like a button
Song of the Night's Gift
Chapter VIII
Nature Poem
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
For I Will Consider My Boyfriend Jeffrey
babel & juice
Song of the Anti-Sisyphus
Talking to God About Heaven from the Bed of a Heathen
Elegy to Be Exhaled at Dusk
Spell to Find Family
Little Song
Poem in Noisy Mouthfuls
Poplar Street
Acknowledgments
About the Author- bisacCodes
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