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    Short Description for Half-lit Houses Tina Chang's poems address the problems of family and heritage, initially inhabiting formally patterned stanzas that mimic the boundaries and bonds that are her subject, and then opening into free(-er) verse as the collection progresses and tries to break out of what has been imposed--both narratively and technically. These are passionate and accessible poems, simple in diction and declaration, el...
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    Title
    Half-lit Houses
    Authors and contributors
    By (author) Tina Chang
    Physical properties
    Format: Paperback
    Number of pages: 80
    Width: 152 mm
    Height: 240 mm
    Thickness: 6 mm
    Weight: 172 g
    Audience
    College/higher education
    General/trade
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9781884800528
    ISBN 10: 1884800521
    Classifications
    Dewey: 811.6
    LC classification: PS3603
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: T3.1
    BISAC category code: POE000000
    BIC subject category: DCF
    BISAC category code: POE005010
    Publisher
    University Press of New England
    Imprint name
    University Press of New England
    Publication date
    30 April 2004
    Publication City/Country
    Hanover/US
    Main description
    Tina Chang's poems address the problems of family and heritage, initially inhabiting formally patterned stanzas that mimic the boundaries and bonds that are her subject, and then opening into free(-er) verse as the collection progresses and tries to break out of what has been imposed--both narratively and technically. These are passionate and accessible poems, simple in diction and declaration, elegant in image and syntax.
    Biographical note
    TINA CHANG's poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Quarterly West, The Missouri Review, Indiana Review, Sonora Review, The Cream City Review, The Crab Orchard Review, among others. Her poems have been anthologized in Identity Lessons (1999) Poetry Nation (1998) and in Asian American Literature (2001) She has received awards from the Academy of American Poets, Poets and Writers, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, the Van Lier Foundation, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund and has held writing fellowships from Villa Montalvo, Fundacion Valparaiso, and The MacDowell Colony. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.