Bite Hard

Justin Chin

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Nominee:Lambda Literary Award -Small Press (1997)

Nominee:Lambda Literary Award -Gay Poetry (1997)

The first collection by award-winning performance artist/poet Justin Chin. In Bite Hard, Chin explores his identity as an Asian, a gay man, an artist, and a lover. He rails against both his own life experiences and society's limitations and stereotypes with scathing humor, bare-bones honesty, and unblinking detail. Whether addressing what really goes on in the kitchen of Chinese restaurants or a series of ex-boyfriends, all named Michael, Chin displays his remarkable emotional range and voice as a poet. His raw, incantatory, stream-of-consciousness poems confront issues of race, desire, and loss with a compelling urgency that reflects his work as in performance, speaking directly to an audience. Throughout this collection, Chin demonstrates his uncanny ability to convey thought-provoking viewpoints on a variety of controversial subjects.

Book Details

Publisher: Manic D Press
Publish Date: Apr 1st, 1997
Pages: 128
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.90in - 5.90in - 0.30in - 0.40lb
EAN: 9780916397470
Categories: • Asian - General• LGBTQ+ Studies - Gay Studies• LGBTQ+

About the Author

Justin Chin is the author of two collections of poetry, Harmless Medicine and Bite Hard (Manic D Press), and two collections of essays, Burden of Ashes (Alyson Press) and Mongrel: Essays, Diatribes and Pranks (St. Martin's Press). In the 1990's, as a performance artist, he created several performance works that were presented nationally and abroad. He lives in San Francisco.

Praise for this book

He plugs the stage microphone into the page and lyrically blasts the heart of our fears, rage, and import-export nightmarish dreams. - Award-winning author R. Zamora Linmark