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I wore my blackest hair : poems / by Carlina Duan.

by Duan, Carlina.

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Little A, 2017.

Chinese American women -- Poetry.

American poetry -- Women authors.

American poetry -- 21st century.

79 pages ; 21 cm.

"Carlina Duan delivers an electric debut collection of poetry. With defiance and wild joy, Duan's poems wrestle with and celebrate ancestry and history, racial consciousness, and the growing pains of girlhood. They explore difficult truths with grace and power. An honest portrait of a woman in-between - identities, places, languages, and desires - and her quest to belong. The speaker is specific in her self-definition, discovering and reinventing what it means to be a bold woman, what it means to be Chinese American, and what it means to grow into adulthood. Duan moves seamlessly from the personal to the imaginative to the universal, heralding a brilliant new voice in contemporary poetry. Carlina Duan hails from Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she earned her BA from the University of Michigan. She lived and taught in Malaysia before returning to the States to pursue work as a literary arts educator and freelancer. She is currently an MFA Candidate at Vanderbilt University.

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