Published to coincide with what would have been Justin Chin's 47th
birthday
Book launch at City Lights Bookstore, with readings in Los Angeles
and New York
Poet, essayist, and performance artist Justin Chin (1969-2015) was
born in Malaysia and educated in Singapore and at the University of
Hawaii. Chin s humorous and brutally honest literary works explore
the personal, social, and metaphorical aspects embracing a queer
Asian American life. Chin authored several collections of poetry,
including Bite Hard (1997), Harmless Medicine (2001), and Gutted
(2006), which won the Publishing Triangle s Thom Gunn Award for
Poetry. Six of Chin's books were Lambda Literary Award Finalists.
His prose collections, which weave criticism with memoir and
fiction, include Mongrel: Essays, Diatribes, & Pranks (1998),
Burden of Ashes (2002), and 98 Wounds (2011). A collection of
Chin's text-based performance art works, Attack of the Man-Eating
Lotus Blossoms (2005) was also published. He was a longtime
resident of San Francisco before his death in late 2015.
Contributing writers include
R. Zamora Linmark is the award-winning author of Rolling the R's
and other works.
Michelle Tea is the award-winning author of more than 10 books,
including The Beautiful.
Timothy Liu is the award-winning author of 8 books, including
Publishers Weekly Book of the Year Of Thee I Sing.
Lois-Ann Yamanaka is the award-winning author of 8 books, including
Saturday Night at the Pahala Theatre.
"
"Chin’s poetry reads like a very raw and real map of the queer
Asian-American experience ..." —BuzzFeed
"With humor and raw vulnerability, Chin’s poems interrogate the
personal, political, and commercial implications of claiming a
queer Asian-American identity." — The Poetry Foundation
"Chin was prolific, funny, outrageous... he was somber, he was
serious, he was lighthearted, he was vital." — Lambda Literary
“A rare soul displaying true vulnerability ... constantly showing
us how complicated and multifaceted we are through art.” — Beth
Lisick, author of Yokohama Threeway and Other Small Shames
"One of the most heroic, acerbic, funny voices to emerge in the
world of American poetry.” — Paul Yamazaki, City Lights
"Chin’s poetry reads like a very raw and real map of the queer
Asian-American experience ..." BuzzFeed
"With humor and raw vulnerability, Chin’s poems interrogate the
personal, political, and commercial implications of claiming a
queer Asian-American identity." The Poetry Foundation
"Chin was prolific, funny, outrageous... he was somber, he was
serious, he was lighthearted, he was vital." Lambda Literary
A rare soul displaying true vulnerability ... constantly showing
us how complicated and multifaceted we are through art.” Beth
Lisick, author of Yokohama Threeway and Other Small Shames
"One of the most heroic, acerbic, funny voices to emerge in the
world of American poetry.” Paul Yamazaki, City Lights
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