{"product_id":"9781556595165","title":"Barbie Chang","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"With astringent understatement and wry economy, with nuance and intelligence and an enviable command of syntax and poetic line, Victoria Chang dissects the venerable practices of cultural piety and self-regard. She is a master of the thumbnail narrative. She can wield a dark eroticism. She is determined to tackle subject matter that is not readily subdued to the proportions of lyric. Her talent is conspicuous.\"—Linda Gregerson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Chang's voice is equal parts searing, vulnerable, and terrified.\"— \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poets\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBarbie Chang\u003c\/i\u003e , Victoria Chang explores racial prejudice, sexual privilege, and the disillusionment of love through a reimagining of Barbie—perfect in the cultural imagination yet repeatedly falling short as she pursues the American dream.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis energetic string of linked poems is full of wordplay, humor, and biting social commentary involving the quote-unquote speaker, Barbie Chang, a disillusioned Asian-American suburbanite. By turns woeful and passionate, playful and incisive, these poems reveal a voice insisting that \"even silence is not silent.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrom \"Barbie Chang Lives\":\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eBarbie Chang lives on Facebook has a house on Facebook street so she can erase herself Facebook is a country with no trees it allows her to believe people love her don't want to cover her Barbie Chang . . .\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eVictoria Chang\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of three previous poetry books. In 2013, she won the PEN Center USA Literary Award and a California Book Award. Chang teaches poetry at Chapman University and lives in Southern California.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055770058992,"sku":"9781556595165","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781556595165_p0.jpg?v=1763756171","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781556595165","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}