I wore my blackest hair
By: poems by Carlina Duan
Publisher: Amazon Publishing
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 79
ISBN-13: 9781503941977
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Chinese American women; Poetry; American poetry
Work titles: Poems
Description: "In I Wore My Blackest Hair, Fulbright grant and Edna Meudt Memorial Award recipient 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. I Wore My Blackest Hair is 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."--Amazon.com.