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    Chinese Blackbird
    Chinese Blackbird
    Chinese Blackbird
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    Chinese Blackbird

    By Sherry Quan Lee and David Mura

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    Critical Acclaim for Sherry Quan Lee's Chinese Blackbird
    "Quan Lee eloquently expresses how painful and confusing it can be to embrace the many complex identities that one body can contain. With evocative imagery and words that cut straight to the heart, Quan Lee details her lifelong struggles with both the vagaries and concreteness of race, class, gender and sexual identity. Her guilt and shame are palpable. But so too are her emotional and intellectual triumphs. Like a favorite sad song when we have been dumped by the love of our lives, this volume will be oddly comforting to anyone who has ever been overcome by that sorrow which seems insurmountable."
    --Eden Torres, Assistant Professor Women's Studies, Chicano Studies, University of Minnesota
    "It's been a long time since I've been treated to a voice so full of honesty about one's struggle to come to terms with her identity. Through elegant poetry, full of exquisite imagery and detail, Quan Lee takes the reader on her personal, transformative journey in which she explores how race, class, gender and sexual identity inform who she is. Along the way, she encounters rocks and boulders that would have stopped many of us. Instead, she turns them over and examines the creatures hiding in the darkness underneath, leaving no stone on her path unturned. Quan Lee is a courageous woman. She is one of my sheroes."
    --Carolyn Holbrook, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Founder and past Artistic/Executive Director of SASE: The Write Place
    "In Chinese Blackbird, Sherry Quan Lee renders stories of her complex cultural heritage with the lyrical touch of a poet coming into self-possession. Through the generative power of language, Lee creates an inspirational and a multifarious self. This self blows breath unto the page and into the reader, who may have felt quiescent or invisible, often feeling forced to choose among various enriching worlds, until she experiences the truth that only good literature can unveil about the joys and struggles of defining oneself on one's terms."
    --Pamela R. Fletcher, Associate Professor of English Co-Director of Critical Studies in Race and Ethnicity, College of St. Catherine
    Modern History Press is an imprint of Loving Healing Press

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherModern History Press
    Release dateFeb 1, 2009
    ISBN9781615998975
    Chinese Blackbird
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    Sherry Quan Lee

    Sherry Quan Lee, MFA, Creative Writing is a Community Instructor at Metropolitan State University (Intro to Creative Writing, Advanced Creative Writing), and has taught classes and men-tored writers at Intermedia Arts, and the Loft Literary Center; and co-taught A Gathering of Storytellers with Lori Young-Williams for the University [of Minnesota] Women of Color organi-za-tion (UWOC), Urban Research and Outreach-Engagement Center (UROC), a partnership between the University of Minnesota and North Minneapolis, and for other community organizations state wide. She is the author of A Little Mixed Up, Guild Press, 1982 (second printing), Chinese Blackbird, a memoir in verse, published 2002 by the Asian American Renaissance, re-published 2008 by Modern History Press, and How to Write a Suicide Note: serial essays that saved a woman's life, Modern History Press, 2008. Follow her online at http://blog.sherryquanlee.com

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