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Peach state / Adrienne Su.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Pitt poetry seriesPublisher: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2021]Description: 101 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0822966565
  • 9780822966562
Other title:
  • Peach state : poems
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
ELEMENTS -- Substitutions -- Ginger -- My Mother's Pantry -- Serve Immediately -- Lychee Express -- On The Recommendation That American Adults Consume -- No More Than One-Quarter Cup Of Rice, Twice A Week Kiwifruit -- After The Dinner Party -- The Jews Of Kaifeng -- The End Of Meat -- When I Said I Grew Up Speaking No Chinese, I Was Forgetting These Words -- SMALL EATS -- Instant Ramen -- Chicken Corn Soup -- Home Baker -- Home Economics -- Consomme -- The Lazy Susan -- White Rabbit -- Tea Eggs -- Peaches -- Maple Syrup -- The Chow-Mein Years In Atlanta -- YOUR TABLE SHOULD BE ROUND -- Egg Roll -- Across-The-Bridge Noodles -- You're From The South? -- Abundance -- Not Dogs -- Not Your Grandmother's Sunday Dinner -- Correspondence -- No Trespassing -- Sizzling Rice Soup -- I Didn't Know Aiiieeeee, But It Knew Me -- Everything That Can Be Eaten -- Senior Center Menu -- Long-Term Care -- NEVER MIND, LET'S GO OUT -- Chinese Restaurant Syndrome -- Xiaolongbao -- Peking Duck Three Ways -- Name That Restaurant -- Holothurian -- The Tradition -- Peking Garden -- Elegy For The Mall -- Latin Club Always Had Pizza -- DESSERTS AND DRINKS -- Black Sesame -- Buford Highway -- Red Bean Soup -- That Almond Dessert -- My Life In Peaches -- Personal History -- Ancestors -- Even When You Die And Go To Heaven, You Have To Change Planes In Atlanta -- Wakefulness -- Oolong -- Savory Versus Sweet -- Doughnuts -- An Hour Later, You're Hungry Again.
Summary: "Peach State has its origins in Atlanta, Georgia, the author's hometown and an emblematic city of the New South, a name that reflects the American region's invigoration in recent decades by immigration and a spirit of reinvention. Focused mainly on food and cooking, these poems explore the city's transformation from the mid-twentieth century to today, as seen and shaped by Chinese Americans. The poems are set in restaurants, home kitchens, grocery stores, and the houses of friends and neighbors. Often employing forms--sonnet, villanelle, sestina, palindrome, ghazal, rhymed stanzas--they also mirror the constant negotiation with tradition that marks both immigrant and Southern experience"-- Publisher's website.
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Finalist, 2022 Patterson Poetry Prize



Peach State has its origins in Atlanta, Georgia, the author's hometown and an emblematic city of the New South, a name that reflects the American region's invigoration in recent decades by immigration and a spirit of reinvention. Focused mainly on food and cooking, these poems explore the city's transformation from the mid-twentieth century to today, as seen and shaped by Chinese Americans. The poems are set in restaurants, home kitchens, grocery stores, and the houses of friends and neighbors. Often employing forms--sonnet, villanelle, sestina, palindrome, ghazal, rhymed stanzas--they also mirror the constant negotiation with tradition that marks both immigrant and Southern experience.

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"Peach State has its origins in Atlanta, Georgia, the author's hometown and an emblematic city of the New South, a name that reflects the American region's invigoration in recent decades by immigration and a spirit of reinvention. Focused mainly on food and cooking, these poems explore the city's transformation from the mid-twentieth century to today, as seen and shaped by Chinese Americans. The poems are set in restaurants, home kitchens, grocery stores, and the houses of friends and neighbors. Often employing forms--sonnet, villanelle, sestina, palindrome, ghazal, rhymed stanzas--they also mirror the constant negotiation with tradition that marks both immigrant and Southern experience"-- Publisher's website.

Machine generated contents note: ELEMENTS -- Substitutions -- Ginger -- My Mother's Pantry -- Serve Immediately -- Lychee Express -- On The Recommendation That American Adults Consume -- No More Than One-Quarter Cup Of Rice, Twice A Week Kiwifruit -- After The Dinner Party -- The Jews Of Kaifeng -- The End Of Meat -- When I Said I Grew Up Speaking No Chinese, I Was Forgetting These Words -- SMALL EATS -- Instant Ramen -- Chicken Corn Soup -- Home Baker -- Home Economics -- Consomme -- The Lazy Susan -- White Rabbit -- Tea Eggs -- Peaches -- Maple Syrup -- The Chow-Mein Years In Atlanta -- YOUR TABLE SHOULD BE ROUND -- Egg Roll -- Across-The-Bridge Noodles -- You're From The South? -- Abundance -- Not Dogs -- Not Your Grandmother's Sunday Dinner -- Correspondence -- No Trespassing -- Sizzling Rice Soup -- I Didn't Know Aiiieeeee, But It Knew Me -- Everything That Can Be Eaten -- Senior Center Menu -- Long-Term Care -- NEVER MIND, LET'S GO OUT -- Chinese Restaurant Syndrome -- Xiaolongbao -- Peking Duck Three Ways -- Name That Restaurant -- Holothurian -- The Tradition -- Peking Garden -- Elegy For The Mall -- Latin Club Always Had Pizza -- DESSERTS AND DRINKS -- Black Sesame -- Buford Highway -- Red Bean Soup -- That Almond Dessert -- My Life In Peaches -- Personal History -- Ancestors -- Even When You Die And Go To Heaven, You Have To Change Planes In Atlanta -- Wakefulness -- Oolong -- Savory Versus Sweet -- Doughnuts -- An Hour Later, You're Hungry Again.

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