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by Chen Chen; Foreword by Jericho Brown


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  • Title When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities
  • Author Chen Chen; Foreword by Jericho Brown
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 96
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher BOA Editions
  • Date 2017-04-11
  • ISBN 9781942683339 / 1942683332
  • Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6.9 x 0.3 in (22.61 x 17.53 x 0.76 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
    • Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
    • Sex & Gender: Gay
    • Topical: Lgbt
  • Library of Congress subjects Gays, Identity (Psychology)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016048800
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.6

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 04/15/2017, Page 89
  • Publishers Weekly, 03/27/2017, Page 0

About the author

Chen Chen was born in Xiamen, China, and grew up in Massachusetts. His work has appeared in two chapbooks and in such publications as Poetry, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Best of the Net, and The Best American Poetry. The recipient of the 2016 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, he has been awarded fellowships from Kundiman, the Saltonstall Foundation, Lambda Literary, and in 2015, he was a finalist for the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships. He earned his BA at Hampshire College and his MFA at Syracuse University. Currently, he is pursuing a PhD in English and Creative Writing at Texas Tech University. Chen lives in Lubbock, Texas, with his partner, Jeff Gilbert, and their pug dog, Rupert Giles.

Jericho Brown is the recipient of the Whiting Writers Award and fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the National Endowment for the Arts. His first book, Please (New Issues, 2008), won the American Book Award, and his second book, The New Testament (Copper Canyon, 2014), was named one of the best poetry books of the year by Library Journal. His poems have appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker, and The Best American Poetry. Brown earned a PhD from the University of Houston, an MFA from the University of New Orleans, and a BA from Dillard University. He is an assistant professor in the creative writing program at Emory University in Atlanta.

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