House A

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By Jennifer S. Cheng

Series: Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Contest

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House A explores the intricate relationship between the immigrant experience and the concept of home. Through a blend of personal narrative and lyrical reflection, Jennifer S. Cheng investigates how bodies are inscribed with a unique cosmology of home and how this, in turn, shapes identity. The book challenges and enriches traditional notions of the American home by delving into themes of longing and displacement.
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Ideal for readers interested in arts and culture, immigration narratives, and poetic explorations of identity and belonging.

Selected by Claudia Rankine as winner of the 2015 Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Contest

Description

House A investigates the tones and textures of immigrant home-building by asking: How is the body inscribed with a cosmology of home, and vice versa? With evocative and intellectual precision, House A weaves personal, discursive, and lyrical textures to invoke the immersive-obscured experience of an immigrant home's entanglement while mapping a new poetics of American Home, steeped in longing and rooted by displacement.

Series: Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Contest

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House A

By Jennifer S. Cheng

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781632430236

Publisher: Omnidawn Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 November 2016

Country: United States

Imprint: Omnidawn Publishing

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 128

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Arts & Culture Jennifer S. Cheng Non-Fiction Poetry Series: Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Contest

About the Author

Jennifer S. Cheng is a poet and essayist with MFA degrees from the University of Iowa and San Francisco State University and a BA from Brown University. A US Fulbright scholar, Kundiman fellow, and Pushcart Prize nominee, she is the author of an image-text chapbook, Invocation: An Essay (New Michigan Press). Having grown up in Texas, Hong Kong, and Connecticut, she currently lives in San Francisco.

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