All Heathens

Authors

Marianne Chan, Old Dominion University

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Description

All Heathens is a declaration of ownership—of bodies, of histories, of time. Revisiting Magellan’s voyage around the world, these poems explore the speaker’s Filipino American identity by grappling with her relationship to her family and notions of diaspora, circumnavigation, and discovery. Whether rewriting the origin story of Eve (“I always imagined that the serpent had the legs of a seductive woman in black nylons”), or ruminating on what-should-have-been-said “when the man at the party said he wanted to own a Filipino,” Chan paints wry, witty renderings of anecdotal and folkloric histories, while both preserving and unveiling a self-identity that dares any other to try and claim it. [Amazon.com]

ISBN

9781946448521

Publication Date

2020

Publisher

Sarabande Books

City

Louisville, KY

Disciplines

Poetry

Recommended Citation

Chan, Marianne, "All Heathens" (2020). MFA Creative Writing Faculty Bookshelf. 65.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/mfa_books/65