Thanks for Letting Us Know You Are Alive

Jennifer Tseng

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Language: English

Published by University of Massachusetts Press, US, 2024

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Crafted with lines from her late father's letters, Jennifer Tseng's Thanks for Letting Us Know You Are Alive is a portrait of an immigrant, a rootless person whose unspoken loss-that of his native geography, family, traditions, language-underlies every word. Though her father's first language was Mandarin, for more than twenty years he wrote these letters in English,so that she could understand them. Someare riddled with errors, some nearly unintelligible. Lines from his letters appear as titles and are scattered throughout the poems, blending voices of father and daughter. This collection enacts what it means to lose someone and commune with them simultaneously-the paradox of grief and all it gives us.

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Title
Thanks for Letting Us Know You Are Alive
Author
Jennifer Tseng
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press, US
Publication year
2024
Condition
New
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
ISBN 10
1625348088
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9781625348081
Item weight
272 grams

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