A New York Public Library Best Book of 2020
A Best Read of 2020 at Ms. Magazine
‘To read Jenny Zhang is to embrace primal states: pleasure, hunger, longing and rage.’ —TIME
Radiant and tender,My Baby First Birthday is a collection that examines innocence, asking us who gets to be loved and who has to deplete themselves just to survive. Jenny Zhang writes about accepting pain, about the way we fetishize womanhood and motherhood, and reduce women to their violations, traumas, and body parts. She questions the way we feminize and racialize nurturing, and live in service of other people’s dreams. How we idealize birth and being baby, how it’s only in our mothers’ wombs that we’re still considered innocent, blameless, and undamaged, because it’s only then that we don’t have to earn love. Her poems explore the obscenity of patriarchy, whiteness, and capitalism, the violence of rescue and heroism. The magic trick in My Baby First Birthday is that despite all these themes, the book never feels like some jeremiad. Zhang uses friendship as a lyric. She seeks tenderness, radiant beauty, and having love for your mistakes. Through all this, she writes about being alone—really alone, like why-was-I-ever-born alone—and trying, despite everything, to reach out and touch something—skin to skin, animal to animal.
A propos de l’auteur
Jenny Zhang was born in Shanghai and grew up in New York. She is the author of the poetry collection Dear Jenny, We Are All Find and the story collection Sour Heart.
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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 208 ● ISBN 9781947793910 ● Taille du fichier 5.0 MB ● Maison d’édition Tin House Books ● Pays US ● Publié 2020 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 7472255 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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