Prescribee
Author: Chia-Lun Chang
ISBN: 9781643621517
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Year first published: 21 Feb 2023
Pages: 88
Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN: 9781643621517
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Year first published: 21 Feb 2023
Pages: 88
Format: Paperback / softback
An arch, precise collection of poems that casts world-historical hierarchies in an aspic mold and serves them back to us on a warped platter.
Reading Prescribeeis not dissimilar to the experience of coming across a recipe in a vintage American cookbook: it transforms the familiar ingredients of contemporary life into an uncanny, discomfiting concoction. Wielding English as a foreign language and medium, Chang redefines the history of Taiwan and captures the alienation of immigrant experience with a startlingly original voice. Flouting tired expectations of race, gender, nationality, and citizen status, Prescribee is as provocative as it is perceptive, as playful as it is sobering.