Kyle Liang's full-length poetry collection, Good Son, encapsulates the "American-born Chinese" diaspora in 70 stunning, heart-rending pages. At its core bleeds a life deeply troubled by Western centrism and not-so-casual racism. Liang details both suppression and acceptance through the lens of a speaker born to immigrant parents in a deft collection that refuses to separate identities into boxes. Explorations of informed consent, the rash of anti-Asian hate crimes that followed COVID-19, and the mockery of speech and accents and social issues intertwine with staggering prose in poems about resilience-and love. What the speaker longs for most is for their heart "to be greedy again." In these pages is the embodiment of that fathoms-deep exquisite longing for self.
- | Author: Kyle Liang
- | Publisher: Sundress Publications
- | Publication Date: Apr 30, 2024
- | Number of Pages: NA pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1951979583
- | ISBN-13: 9781951979584
- Author:
- Matt Stanton (Illustrator)
- Publisher:
- HarperAlley
- Publication Date:
- Apr 16, 2024
- Number of pages:
- NA pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 0063069032
- ISBN-13:
- 9780063069039