{"product_id":"your-emergency-contact-has-experienced-an-emergency","title":"Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat happens when everything falls away, when those you call on in times of need are themselves calling out for rescue?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn his highly anticipated second collection, Chen Chen continues his investigation of family, both blood and chosen, examining what one inherits and what one invents, as a queer Asian American living through an era of Trump, mass shootings, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Always at work in the wrecked heart of this new collection is a switchboard operator, picking up and connecting calls. Raucous 2 a.m.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e prank calls. Whispered-in-a-classroom emergency calls. And sometimes, its pages record the dropping of a call, a failure or refusal to pick up.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With irrepressible humor and play, these anarchic poems celebrate life, despite all that would crush aliveness.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHybrid in form and set in New England, West Texas, and a landlocked province of China, among other places, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eYour Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e refuses neat categorizations and pat answers. Instead, the book offers an insatiable curiosity about how it is we keep finding ways to hold onto one another.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublished: USA, 2022\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Boa Editions\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePages: 158\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN 13: 9781950774692\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN 10: 1950774694\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chen Chen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44778371842314,"sku":"","price":21.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9781950774692.jpg?v=1697020476","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/your-emergency-contact-has-experienced-an-emergency","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}