How to Not Be Afraid of Everything
Published on 12. October 2021
73 pages
978-1-948579-45-2 (ISBN)
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Major themes of immigration, growing up in a restaurant, hidden and silenced histories, The Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. A lot of people probably aren't even aware of The Great Leap Forward (which caused the great Chinese famine, one of the greatest man-made catastrophes in history with an estimated death toll between tens of thousands to 240,000).
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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.
