How to Not Be Afraid of Everything by Wong, Jane

Explores the vulnerable ways we articulate and reckon with fear: fear of intergenerational trauma and the silent, hidden histories of families. What does it mean to grow up in a take-out restaurant, surrounded by food, just a generation after the Great Leap Forward famine in 1958-62? Full of elegy and resilient joy, these poems speak across generations of survival.

Author: Jane Wong
Publisher: Alice James Books
Published: 10/12/2021
Pages: 100
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 9.06h x 5.98w x 0.25d
ISBN: 9781948579216

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 09/01/2021 pg. 70
Publishers Weekly 08/16/2021 pg. 58

About the Author
Jane Wong's poems can be found in Best American Poetry 2015, POETRY, American Poetry Review, Third Coast, AGNI, and others. A Kundiman fellow, she is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the U.S. Fulbright Program, the Fine Arts Work Center, Hedgebrook, Artist Trust, and Bread Loaf. She is the author of Overpour (Action Books, 2016) and is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Western Washington University.