Justin Chin: Selected Works
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Justin Chin: Selected Works

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Justin Chin: Selected Works

About this book

Notable literary figures pay tribute to poet/writer Justin Chin with personal commentaries on works selected from his seven books.

Justin Chin's fearless and fierce voice was resolute in relating his worldview, whether directly or through metaphorical language. As a queer Asian American, born and raised in Southeast Asia within a devoutly Christian, ethnically Chinese family of medical professionals, Chin's early life experience informed his writing and framed his point of view. In his literary works, the seemingly conflicted duality of existence is paramount: sacred and profane, saints and sinners, health and illness, hope and despair, life and death. His works also explore his experience of living with HIV, which progressed into AIDS in his final years.

This unique collection of Chin's literary legacy will serve as both a primer for those new to his works, as well as a loving tribute by those writers who knew him and his work best.

Among many others, contributing writers include R. Zamora Linmark ( Rolling the R's ), Michelle Tea ( How To Grow Up ), Timothy Liu ( Don't Go Back To Sleep ), and Lois-Ann Yamanaka ( Night at the Pahala Theatre ).

Justin Chin (1969–2015) was the award-winning author of four poetry books, two essay collections, one book each of short fiction, and text-based performance art works. His writing appeared in literary magazines, including Beloit Poetry Journal, and anthologies, including American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon). He taught at UC Santa Cruz and at San Francisco State University. He was a recipient of fellowships and grants from the California Arts Council, Djerassi Foundation, Franklin Furnace Fund, PEN American Center, and PEN Center USA West, among others.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Final (excerpt)
  7. Bridges Remain
  8. Tied
  9. A History of Geography
  10. This Is Your Life
  11. Flying the Red Eye
  12. Smell
  13. One day at home…
  14. What the ’80s Meant to Me
  15. Bitter
  16. Sold
  17. Back When I Knew Who I Was
  18. Lick My Butt
  19. Positivity
  20. These Nervous Days
  21. Chinese Restaurant
  22. Ex-Boyfriends Named Michael
  23. Chicken Little
  24. Refuging
  25. Sleepless
  26. Night
  27. What I Did Last Summer
  28. Undetectable
  29. Poison
  30. Magnified
  31. One, the generously affectionate stray who stayed
  32. (Animal) Species I Have Eaten
  33. Giant Non-Poisonous Snake
  34. Grave
  35. Harmless Medicine
  36. Imagining America
  37. The Men’s Restroom at the INS Building
  38. Gutted
  39. Tonight, again
  40. I would not mind getting the cancer
  41. (Happiness)
  42. The other night, I dreamt of a father who lasted forever
  43. The four leather golf bags…
  44. Two days after my dad’s funeral…
  45. Me and My Helper Monkey
  46. Grief comes in waves…
  47. Narrowing
  48. Lately I’ve been thinking…
  49. Quietus
  50. But here I shall make a break…
  51. Hid and Found
  52. Everything has been swept away…
  53. Faggot Dinosaur
  54. Deal
  55. About the Writer
  56. About the Book
  57. ...When you put a work out there…