{"product_id":"genghis-chan-on-drums-paperback","title":"Genghis Chan on Drums - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Yau\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA diverse and cacophonous poetry collection tackling subjects from identity to current events.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e At once comic and cantankerous, tender and discomfiting, piercing and irreverent, \u003ci\u003eGenghis Chan on Drums\u003c\/i\u003e is a shape-shifting book of percussive poems dealing with aging, identity, PC culture, and stereotypes about being Chinese. Employing various forms, John Yau's poems traverse a range of subjects, including the 1930s Hollywood actress Carole Lombard, the Latin poet Catullus, the fantastical Renaissance painter Piero di Cosimo's imaginary sister, and a nameless gumshoe. Yau moves effortlessly from using the rhyme scheme of a sixteenth-century Edmund Spenser sonnet to riffing on a well-known poem-rant by the English poet Sean Bonney, and to immersing himself in the words of condolence sent by a former president to the survivors of a school massacre. Yau's poems are conduits through which many different, conflicting, and unsavory voices strive to be heard. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Yau \u003c\/b\u003eis a poet, art critic, fiction writer, and publisher whose recent books include \u003ci\u003eForeign Sounds or Sounds Foreign\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBijoux in the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e. He founded Black Square Editions and cofounded the online magazine \u003ci\u003eHyperallergic Weekend\u003c\/i\u003e. He has received awards and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, National Endowment of the Arts, and Academy of American Poets, among others. He teaches at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and lives in New York. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 152\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 06, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47351747543289,"sku":"9781632431004","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/aVY1c3lDTlIwektCMWtWdFU3V1oyQT09.webp?v=1769800902","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/genghis-chan-on-drums-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}