|
|
a collection by cover image and design by Shane Luitjens/Torquere Creative gay fiction/queer studies/drama
As a performance artist, Justin Chin has created eight full-length solo performance works and several shorter works, which have been presented nationally and abroad. Attack of the Man-Eating Lotus Blossoms is a collection of these performance art texts, along with documents, and scripts, that represent Chin's work from 1993-2001.
Whether playing native, tourist, or other, Chin questions our—as well as his own—assumptions, prejudices, and consumption of cultural beings and commodities. These works explore themes of sexuality, of Asian and of queer bodies, hybrid forms of culture, belonging, and the loss, recovery, and reconstruction of home, homeland, and history. These works are by turns coolly ironic, or bratty and comic, or poignant and mournful, or unbelievably borderline psychotic.
Read the foreword, "Hello,..." here.
Justin Chin is also the author of two collections of poetry, Harmless Medicine and Bite Hard, and two collections of essays, Burden of Ashes and Mongrel: Essays, Diatribes and Pranks. Chin's writings have also been anthologized widely, most notably in The Outlaw Bible Of American Poetry, American Poetry: The Next Generation, and The World In Us: Lesbian and Gay Poetry of the Next Wave, among others. He lives in San Francisco.
Once upon a time, in the mid-late '90s,
"Justin Chin is a terrifying original. His wit is fierce and biting. He scrutinizes the world in which we live with unrelenting harshness and at the same with an astounding beauty. A potent and singular voice, Justin Chin has an assured place in American and Asian literature, poetry and performance." Pick it up or order it at your favorite book store!
A high-resolution Attack of the Man-Eating Lotus Blossoms cover is available here. Publisher: Greg Wharton |
|
|||
