{"title":"Mary Jean Chan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMary Jean Chan\u003c\/strong\u003e explores the intricacies of identity, culture, and emotion through a distinctive poetic voice. Their work delves into personal and collective experiences, blending lyrical intensity with keen insight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect a profound and evocative journey across themes of belonging, love, and self-discovery, articulated with elegance and striking imagery within the realms of contemporary arts and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"bright-fear-by-mary-jean-chan-9780571378906","title":"Bright Fear","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing their award-winning debut, \u003ci\u003eFleche\u003c\/i\u003e (2019), comes Mary Jean Chan's gleaming second collection: \u003ci\u003eBright Fear\u003c\/i\u003e. Through poems which engage fearlessly with intertwined themes of identity, multilingualism and postcolonial legacy, Chan's latest work explores a family's evolving dynamics, as well as microaggressions stemming from queerphobia and anti-Asian racism that accompanied the Covid pandemic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYet \u003ci\u003eBright Fear\u003c\/i\u003e remains deeply attuned to moments of beauty, tenderness and grace. It asks how we might find a home within our own bodies, in places both distant and near, and in the 'constructed space' of the poem. The contemplative central sequence, \u003ci\u003eArs Poetica\u003c\/i\u003e, traces the radically healing and transformative role of poetry during the poet's teenage and adult years, culminating in a polyphonic reconciliation of tongues. Throughout, Chan offers us new and galvanising ways to 'withstand the quotidian tug- \/ of-war between terror and love'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'[Chan] is one of those rare poets who leave you looking up with a sense that you can engage even the smallest part of the world around you with a much greater intensity.' - \u003ci\u003ePN Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47383590535404,"sku":"9780571378906","price":32.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/11465173482391.jpg?v=1773376831"},{"product_id":"fleche-by-mary-jean-chan-9780571348046","title":"Flèche","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMuch like the fencer who must constantly read and respond to her opponent's tactics during a fencing bout, this debut collection by Mary Jean Chan deftly examines relationships at once conflictual and tender.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFlèche\u003c\/em\u003e (the French word for 'arrow') is an offensive technique commonly used in epee, a competitive sport of the poet's teenage and young adult years. This cross-linguistic pun presents the queer, non-white body as both vulnerable ('flesh') and weaponised ('fleche') in public and private spaces. Themes of multilingualism, queerness, post-colonialism, psychoanalysis, and cultural history emerge by means of an imagined personal, maternal and national biography, spoken by a polyphony of female voices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe result is a series of poems that are urgent and hard-hitting as Chan keeps her readers on their toes, dazzling and devastating them by turn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596418007276,"sku":"9780571348046","price":45.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/dc506fd53b68eacc938ab57699197651.jpg?v=1777936512"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/mary-jean-chan.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}