Precedented Parroting
- Publisher
- Palimpsest Press
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2024
- Category
- NON-CLASSIFIABLE, Women Authors
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781990293641
- Publish Date
- Feb 2024
- List Price
- $21.95
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Description
Opening with an exit, the poems in Precedented Parroting accept no assumptions. With the determination and curiosity of a problem-solving crow, this expansive debut plumbs personal archives and traverses the natural world, endeavouring to shake the tight cage of stereotypes, Asian and avian. Praised as “lively and intelligent? and “lyrically delicious,? Barbara Tran's poetry offers us both the keen eye and grace of a hawk, “red-tailed gliding / on time.?
About the author
Barbara Tran’s poems have appeared in Conjunctions, Ploughshares, and The Paris Review. Barbara is a co-writer of the short, extended-reality film Madame Pirate: Becoming a Legend, a 2022 selection of SXSW and the Cannes Film Festival’s Marché du Film. Her poetry collection is forthcoming from Palimpsest Press. She lives in Toronto, Canada.
