With astringent understatement and wry economy, with nuance and intelligence and an enviable command of syntax and poetic line, Victoria Chang dissects the venerable practices of cultural piety and self-regard.
Chang teaches poetry at Chapman University and lives in Southern California..
In 2013, she won the PEN Center USA Literary Award and a California Book Award.
Victoria Chang is the author of three previous poetry books. . .
From Barbie Chang Lives: Barbie Chang lives on Facebook has a house on Facebook street so she can erase herself Facebook is a country with no trees it allows her to believe people love her don\'t want to cover her Barbie Chang .
By turns woeful and passionate, playful and incisive, these poems reveal a voice insisting that even silence is not silent.
This energetic string of linked poems is full of wordplay, humor, and biting social commentary involving the quote-unquote speaker, Barbie Chang, a disillusioned Asian-American suburbanite.
Her talent is conspicuous.--Linda Gregerson Chang\'s voice is equal parts searing, vulnerable, and terrified.-- American Poets Barbie Chang , Victoria Chang explores racial prejudice, sexual privilege, and the disillusionment of love through a reimagining of Barbie--perfect in the cultural imagination yet repeatedly falling short as she pursues the American dream.
She is determined to tackle subject matter that is not readily subdued to the proportions of lyric.
She can wield a dark eroticism.
She is a master of the thumbnail narrative.
With astringent understatement and wry economy, with nuance and intelligence and an enviable command of syntax and poetic line, Victoria Chang dissects the venerable practices of cultural piety and self-regard
