{"id":57945,"date":"2019-05-01T22:12:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T22:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57945"},"modified":"2019-05-01T22:14:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T22:14:05","slug":"hybrida-poems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57945","title":{"rendered":"Hybrida: Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hybrida: Poems<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

W. W. Norton<\/a>
\nMay 2019
\n144 pages
\n6.4 \u00d7 8.5 in
\nHardcover ISBN: 978-1-324-00248-2<\/p>\n

Tina Chang<\/strong><\/a>, Poet Laureate of Brooklyn, New York
\nBrooklyn, New York<\/em><\/p>\n

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A stirring and confident examination of mixed-race identity, violence, and history skillfully rendered through the lens of motherhood.<\/p>\n

In this timely, assured collection, Tina Chang confronts the complexities of raising a mixed-race child during an era of political upheaval in the United States<\/a>. She ruminates on the relationship between her son\u2019s blackness and his safety, exploring the dangers of childhood in a post\u2013Trayvon Martin<\/a> era and invoking racialized roles in fairy tales. Against the stark urban landscapes of threat and surveillance, Chang returns to the language of mothers.<\/p>\n

Meditating on the lives of Michael Brown<\/a>, Leiby Kletzky<\/a>, and Noemi \u00c1lvarez Quillay<\/a>\u2014lost at the hands of individuals entrusted to protect them\u2014Chang creates hybrid poetic forms that mirror her investigation of racial tensions. Through an agile blend of zuihitsu<\/a>, ghazal<\/a>, prose poems<\/a>, mosaic poems, and lyric essays<\/a>, Hybrida<\/em> envisions a childhood of mixed race as one that is complex, emotionally wrought, and often vulnerable. Hybrida<\/em> is a twenty-first-century tale that is equal parts a mother\u2019s love and her fury, an ambitious and revelatory exploration of identity that establishes Tina Chang as one of the most vital voices of her generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A stirring and confident examination of mixed-race identity, violence, and history skillfully rendered through the lens of motherhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11,414,125,8,1617,23674,20],"tags":[29717,17766,29718,29716,757],"class_list":["post-57945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-books","category-family","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-poetry-books","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-leiby-kletzky","tag-michael-brown","tag-noemi-alvarez-quillay","tag-tina-chang","tag-w-w-norton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57947,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57945\/revisions\/57947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}