Crossfire, Staceyann Chin
Crossfire, Staceyann Chin
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Crossfire
A Litany for Survival

Author: Staceyann Chin

Narrator: Staceyann Chin

Unabridged: 3 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/18/2021

Synopsis

Crossfire collects Staceyann Chin's empowering, feminist-LGBTQ-Caribbean, activist-driven poetry for the first time in a single book.According to The New York Times, Chin is sassy, rageful and sometimes softly self-mocking. The Advocate says that her poems combine hilarious one-liners with a refusal to conform and note Chin is out to confront more than just the straight world.

About Staceyann Chin

Staceyann Chin is a poet, an actor, and a performing artist who has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and 60 Minutes. The author of the critically acclaimed memoir The Other Side of Paradise, she co-wrote and performed in the Tony Award-winning Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam on Broadway. Her poetry has been featured in The New York Times and The Washington Post. She proudly identifies as Caribbean, Black, Asian, lesbian, a woman, and a resident of New York City, as well as a Jamaican national.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tea

Really bad ass poems calling out so many issues from homophobia, sexism, racism, xenophobia, rape culture, and imperialism. Also contains emotional and personal poems about Staceyann Chin's personal experience such as heartbreak, her family relations and lust. I really love her style it's blunt, fil......more

Goodreads review by Kiki

When you're already reaching for your lighter at the author's preface you know you're reading towards power. There's a lot to say on how Chin folds, stretches, tears, and butts words together to hold space for herself and so many of us. For now, I can only suggest you carry everything you love and f......more

Goodreads review by Sergio

Slowly but surely I'm forcing myself to read more poetry and this latest collection might be my favorite yet. I really appreciate the way each poem connects to the next chronologically giving the collection a very autobiographical feeling, which does a great job of anchoring me through the poems. Th......more

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