Jenny Zhang

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My Baby First BirthdayPaperback, 12 May 2020

My Baby First Birthday
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Print Length
208 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Tin House Books
Date Published
12 May 2020
ISBN-10
1947793810
ISBN-13
9781947793811

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Radiant and tender, My Baby First Birthday is a collection that examines innocence, asking us who gets to be loved and who has to deplete themselves just to survive. Jenny Zhang writes about accepting pain, about the way we fetishize womanhood and motherhood, and reduce women to their violations, traumas, and body parts. She questions the way we feminize and racialize nurturing, and live in service of other people's dreams. How we idealize birth and being baby, how it's only in our mothers' wombs that we're still considered innocent, blameless, and undamaged, because it's only then that we don't have to earn love. Her poems explore the obscenity of patriarchy, whiteness, and capitalism, the violence of rescue and heroism. The magic trick in My Baby First Birthday is that despite all these themes, the book never feels like some jeremiad. Zhang uses friendship as a lyric. She seeks tenderness, radiant beauty, and having love for your mistakes. Through all this, she writes about being alone--really alone, like why-was-I-ever-born alone--and trying, despite everything, to reach out and touch something--skin to skin, animal to animal.

Product Details

Author:
Jenny Zhang
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
12 May 2020
Dimensions:
22.61 x 15.24 x 2.03 cm
ISBN-10:
1947793810
ISBN-13:
9781947793811
Language:
English
Pages:
208
Publisher:
Weight:
294.83 gm

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