Barbie Chang

by Victoria Chang

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Victoria Chang’s previous collections of poetry are The Boss, Salvinia Molesta, and Circle. The Boss won the PEN Center USA Literary Award and a California Book Award. In 2017, she received a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship. Her children’s picture book, Is Mommy?, illustrated by Marla Frazee, was a New York Times Notable Book. She holds degrees from the University of Michigan, Harvard, and Stanford, as well as an MFA from Warren Wilson, where she received a Holden Scholarship. She lives in Southern California with her family and two wiener dogs, Mustard and Ketchup. She currently teaches creative writing at Chapman University and the Orange County School of the Arts. You can find her at www.victoriachangpoet.com.

  ALSO BY VICTORIA CHANG

  The Boss

  Salvinia Molesta

  Circle

  Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation (editor)

  Is Mommy? (for children, with Marla Frazee)

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  Thank you to the editors of the journals in which many of the poems in this book appeared, often in earlier forms: Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, AGNI, The American Poetry Review, At Length, Blackbird, Chaparral, Diode, Fourteen Hills, Harvard Review, Manoa, Meridian, Michigan Quarterly Review, Mississippi Review, Narrative, New England Review, New Republic, Poetry, Poetry International, Salt Hill, Southwest Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Waxwing.

  Thanks to all my friends and supporters, particularly Ilya Kaminsky for our marathon manuscript exchanges and chats about poetry.

  Thanks to my comrades G.C. Waldrep, Dana Levin, and John Gallaher for the continual conversation and for always challenging my thinking. Thanks to C. Dale Young for the long-term advice and constant good humor. Thanks to all my other friends and supporters whom I confide in and rely on — too many to mention here.

  Thanks to Michael Wiegers and Copper Canyon Press for everything you do for poetry.

  Thanks to the Guggenheim Foundation for a fellowship and support.

  And thanks to my family for tolerating my sometimes intolerable obsession with reading and writing.

  Copyright 2017 by Victoria Chang

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  Book cover: Phil Kovacevich

  ISBN: 978-1-55659-516-5

  eISBN: 978-1-61932-179-3

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