num_pages: 224
description: A literary dreamscape in which the landscapes of childhood, homelands, bodies, lovers, and desires succumb to whimsy, revision, and denial. With wild grace, Chin bounds through actual events and imagined outcomes-in a place where killing snakes, stern discipline, family pets, and childhood vacations share equal time with unrequited love, the mournful specters of ex-lovers, imagined passions, and the enigmatic power of a good kiss-reconciling what is lost, taken away, denied, outgrown, left behind, survived, remembered, and reclaimed. Marketing Advance Reader CopiesAuthor Appearances in San Francisco and New York Justin Chin is the author of Essays, Diatribes and Pranks and Bite Hard . His writings have appeared in American The Next Generation, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, and Chick for a Day. He has created eight full-length solo performance works and several shorter works that have been presented nationally and abroad. Born in Malaysia and raised in Singapore, he currently lives in San Francisco.
language: English
title: Burden of Ashes
titlecomplete: Burden of Ashes
genres: LGBT, Poetry
ratings_count: 31
publisher: Alyson Books