Burden of Ashes
Justin Chin / Mar 02, 2021
Burden of Ashes A literary dreamscape in which the landscapes of childhood homelands bodies lovers and desires succumb to whimsy revision and denial With wild grace Chin bounds through actual events and imagin
A literary dreamscape in which the landscapes of childhood, homelands, bodies, lovers, and desires succumb to whimsy, revision, and denial With wild grace, Chin bounds through actual events and imagined outcomes in a place where killing snakes, stern discipline, family pets, and childhood vacations share equal time with unrequited love, the mournful specters of ex lovers,A literary dreamscape in which the landscapes of childhood, homelands, bodies, lovers, and desires succumb to whimsy, revision, and denial With wild grace, Chin bounds through actual events and imagined outcomes in a place where killing snakes, stern discipline, family pets, and childhood vacations share equal time with unrequited love, the mournful specters of ex lovers, imagined passions, and the enigmatic power of a good kiss reconciling what is lost, taken away, denied, outgrown, left behind, survived, remembered, and reclaimed.Marketing Plans Advance Reader CopiesAuthor Appearances in San Francisco and New YorkJustin Chin is the author of Mongrel Essays, Diatribes and Pranks and Bite Hard His writings have appeared in American Poetry The Next Generation, The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, and Chick for a Day He has created eight full length solo performance works and several shorter works that have been presented nationally and abroad Born in Malaysia and raised in Singapore, he currently lives in San Francisco.
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Justin Chin
Born in Malaysia, raised educated in Singapore, shipped to the U.S by way of Hawaii, and lived in San Francisco Author of 3 books of poetry, all published by Manic D Press Bite Hard 1997 Harmless Medicine 2001 , a finalist in the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association Awards and, Gutted 2006 , which received the 2007 Thom Gunn Award for Poetry by the Publishing Triangle Squeezed in between these were 2 non fictions Mongrel Essays, Diatribes Pranks St Martins, 1999 , and the ur memoir, Burden of Ashes Alyson Publications, 2002.In the nineties, also led a double life as performance artist created and presented seven full length solo works here, there and where ever Packed up those cookies in 2002, with occasional relapses and the documents, scripts, and what heck from that period was published in Attack of the Man Eating Lotus Blossoms Suspect Thoughts Press, 2005 Continues to produce text visual Book based performance work Book 2 is an on going project where discarded or abandoned books found on the streets other public places are remade, remodeled, reworked into artists books.