Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced An Emergency by Chen Chen Stein Mehren and Kelly revives the symbols

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‘The first time was a fluke

The edition has two commentary essays: the first primarily concerned with approaches to reading

The consequences of poet’s long-term residence in Miami are forcefully brought home through poems of emigration and estrangement

Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced An Emergency by Chen Chen Stein Mehren and Kelly revives the symbolsWhat happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves calling out for rescue? In his highly anticipated second collection, Chen Chen continues his exploration of family, both blood and chosen, examining what one inherits and what one invents, as a queer Asian American living through an era of Trump, mass shootings and the COVID 19 pandemic. With unexpected playfulness and irrepressible humour, these anarchic