Pain and Hope in “Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency” – Chicago Review of Books

Pain and Hope in “Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Chen Chen traverses a wide ground in Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency, past and present, personal and universal, and does so with irreverence to the conventions of didactic poetry and the white western canon. In these past fraught years of Trumpism, the COVID-19 pandemic, and upticks in Asian American violence, Chen approaches … Read more

Fusing Creativity and Crisis in “Emergency” – Chicago Review of Books

Fusing Creativity and Crisis in “Emergency” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Climate change has broken time. Geological processes that normally unfold over millennia are now a matter of urgency, and the rhythms that structure our lives have fallen out of sync. Some changes, like biosphere collapse and the thawing of ice caps, are happening much too quickly; others, like popular uprisings and economic shifts, are … Read more