Sherry Quan Lee

Septuagenarian (eBook, ePUB)

Love Is What Happens When I Die

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Septuagenarian: love is what happens when I die is a memoir in poetic form. It is the author's journey from being a mixed-race girl who passed for white to being a woman in her seventies who understands and accepts her complex intersectional identity; and no longer has to imagine love. It is a follow-up to the author's previous memoir (prose), Love Imagined: a mixed-race memoir, A Minnesota Book Award finalist.
Praise for Sherry Quan Lee's Septuagenarian
In Septuagenarian, Sherry Quan Lee accepts her own invitation to look at life in retrospect, but with a new lens. Pulling from and expanding upon her previous body of work, she examines the version of herself that was writing at that time. The dignity and fire of her seventy-three-year old gaze taking in snapshots of those selves...straightens my spine and gives me a vision for myself traveling today into my future septuagenarian.
--Lola Osunkoya, MA, LPCC
Sherry Quan Lee writes courageously to understand herself and the world. She uses rich language and her skills as a storyteller to focus her sharp lens on what it means to have a complex, sometimes complicated identity: becoming invisible as she ages, a history of passing unseen, love and sex, grieving and celebration. She ruminates on history, which repeats itself in the current moment and widens her lens to look at the bigger, global picture to tell truths in poems that tenderly hold memory, time, rituals, trauma, mothering, fear of death and love in many forms. Her poems offer deeply personal, intimate and perceptive insights and opportunities to reflect on what it means to truly live. It feels like I've taken the journey with her, and I'm wiser for it.
--Shay Youngblood, author of Soul Kiss and Black Girl in Paris
From Modern History Press

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Modern History Press
• Seitenzahl: 100
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781615995707
• Artikelnr.: 62587657

Autorenporträt

Sherry Quan Lee, MFA, University of Minnesota, and Distinguished Alumna, North Hennepin Community College, is the editor of "How Dare We! Write: a multicultural creative writing discourse". Her most recent book, "Love Imagined: a mixed race memoir" was a 2015 Minnesota Book Award Finalist. Previous books include "Chinese Blackbird," a memoir in verse, "How to Write a Suicide Note: serial essays that saved a woman's life," and a chapbook, "A Little Mixed Up." Quan Lee was a selected participant for the Loft Literary Center Asian Inroads Program, and later was the Loft mentor for the same program. Previously, she was the Writer to Writer mentor for SASE: the write place, at Intermedia Arts. Also, she was the 2015-2016 Loft Literary Center's Mentors Series poetry mentor. She was the Asian American Renaissance, Artist and Youth Program Manager and a volunteer editor for: Body of Stories, the fifth journal of the Asian American Renaissance, and Spirits, Myths and Dreams: Stories in Transit, the fourth journal of the Asian American Renaissance. She has recently retired as an adjunct creative writing instructor at Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN, and has taught creative writing at St. Catherine University. Follow her on the site http://blog.sherryquanlee.com.