Critical Acclaim for Sherry Quan Lee's Chinese Blackbird "Quan Lee eloquently expresses how painful and confusing it can be to embrace the many complex identities that one body can contain. With evocative imagery and words that cut straight to the heart, Quan Lee details her lifelong struggles with both the vagaries and concreteness of race, class, gender and sexual identity. Her guilt and shame are palpable. But so too are her emotional and intellectual triumphs. Like a favorite sad song when we have been dumped by the love of our lives, this volume will be oddly comforting to anyone who has ever been overcome by that sorrow which seems insurmountable." --Eden Torres, Assistant Professor Women's Studies, Chicano Studies, University of Minnesota "It's been a long time since I've been treated to a voice so full of honesty about one's struggle to come to terms with her identity. Through elegant poetry, full of exquisite imagery and detail, Quan Lee takes the reader on her personal, transformative journey in which she explores how race, class, gender and sexual identity inform who she is. Along the way, she encounters rocks and boulders that would have stopped many of us. Instead, she turns them over and examines the creatures hiding in the darkness underneath, leaving no stone on her path unturned. Quan Lee is a courageous woman. She is one of my sheroes." --Carolyn Holbrook, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Founder and past Artistic/Executive Director of SASE: The Write Place "In Chinese Blackbird, Sherry Quan Lee renders stories of her complex cultural heritage with the lyrical touch of a poet coming into self-possession. Through the generative power of language, Lee creates an inspirational and a multifarious self. This self blows breath unto the page and into the reader, who may have felt quiescent or invisible, often feeling forced to choose among various enriching worlds, until she experiences the truth that only good literature can unveil about the joys and struggles of defining oneself on one's terms." --Pamela R. Fletcher, Associate Professor of English Co-Director of Critical Studies in Race and Ethnicity, College of St. Catherine Learn more about the author at www.SherryQuanLee.com Book #2 in the Reflections of History Series from Modern History Press www.ModernHistoryPress.com Modern History Press is an imprint of Loving Healing Press
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Title Page
Copyright
Reflections of America Series
Preface
In Memory of My Mother
Acknowledgements
Acclaim for Chinese Blackbird
Not Hiding Not White
Chinese/Black/Woman
Wintergreen
Hocus-Pocus
Black Beauty Blues
Magnolia Café
Dear M.F.A. Faculty
Job Interview Number One After Earning An M.F.A.
Theory
Incarnation
Chinese Blackbird
Parthenogenesis
Chokecherry
Needles and Pins
Theun Wing
Glossolalia
Winter Solstice
Chinese Blackbird
Since I Was Born
Anxiety Where are You? Oh Well, Goodbye
Mother’s and Mine
Reunion
Sixteen-Year-Old Vampire
Mazatlan, Spring Break
A Love Poem
Early Retirement
Wishing Well
This Breast Belongs to Me
Death, Divorce, Resurrection
Diva Breakin’ The Blues
China Doll
I Will Divorce You
Diva Breakin’ the Blues
Women Who Run
It Is Not Good
Naming
Insomnia
What Song is She Singing?
I Asked My Husband If He Thought I Was A Lesbian And He Said, Yes