Poetry.
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Tao Lin is 23 and lives in New York City.
YOU ARE A Little BIT Happier Than I AM has the energy and oddness of a thing that is rising very fast that is not supposed to be rising, or that is supposed to be rising but for a moment you forget that, and for a moment this ordinary thing looks very strange and exciting--Deb Olin Unferth.
This book is fun, smart, manic and ecstatic; it puts on a clean shirt before it loads the gun.
Reading Tao Lin is like looking the wrong way down Frank O\'Hara\'s ear trumpet at a 21st century Mayakovski IM-ing Lili Brik.
Winner of the 2005 December Prize.
Asian American Studies.
Poetry