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ISBN-10: 0916397726
ISBN-13: 9780916397722
Publisher: Manic D Press
Publish Date: 07/01/2001
Dimensions: 8.62" L, 6.28" W, 0.43" H

Harmless Medicine

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Overview

Fiercely devoted to the margins of life in the generation after the devastating first wave of the AIDS epidemic, this cathartic collection of poems explores illness, travel, contagion, the meaning of home, identity, tainted purity, and the bits of life that contain them and hold them together in spite of the harsh exigency of daily life. In more than 40 pieces, Chin fearlessly delivers everything from his first exposure to science (Magnified) to a mail order fantasy experience (I Buy Sea Monkeys); from backroads travel in Asia (Little Everest in Your Palm) to the plight of immigrants in America (The Men’s Restroom at the INS Building). Chin’s brutal honesty and sharp humor frame a profound and original collection.

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Alongside personal explorations, Chin's poems take on the most rancid (and entrenched) attributes of contemporary life These critiques are vivid and defiant, yet poetically innovative and frequently playful. - Frigate
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Details

ISBN-10: 0916397726
ISBN-13: 9780916397722
Publisher: Manic D Press
Publish Date: 07/01/2001
Dimensions: 8.62" L, 6.28" W, 0.43" H
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