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Septuagenarian: love is what happens when I die is a memoir in poetic form. It is the author's journey
from being a mixed-race girl who passed for white to being a woman in her seventies who understands and
accepts her complex intersectional identity; and no longer has to imagine love. It is a follow-up to the
author's previous memoir (prose), Love Imagined: a mixed-race memoir, A Minnesota Book Award finalist.
Praise for Sherry Quan Lee's Septuagenarian
In Septuagenarian, Sherry Quan Lee accepts her own invitation to look at life in retrospect, but with
a new lens. Pulling from and expanding upon her previous body of work, she examines the version of herself
that was writing at that time. The dignity and fire of her seventy-three-year-old gaze taking in snapshots
of those selves...straightens my spine and gives me a vision for myself traveling today into my future
septuagenarian. --Lola Osunkoya, MA, LPCC
Sherry Quan Lee writes courageously to understand herself and the world. She uses rich language and her
skills as a storyteller to focus her sharp lens on what it means to have a complex, sometimes complicated
identity: becoming invisible as she ages, a history of passing unseen, love and sex, grieving and celebration.
She ruminates on history, which repeats itself in the current moment and widens her lens to look at the bigger, global picture to tell truths in poems that tenderly hold memory, time, rituals, trauma, mothering, fear of death and love in many forms. Her poems offer deeply personal, intimate and perceptive insights and
opportunities to reflect on what it means to truly live. It feels like I've taken the journey with her,
and I'm wiser for it. --Shay Youngblood, author of Soul Kiss and Black Girl in Paris
Sherry Quan Lee writes with a purity of intention. She has no interest in certain kinds of poetics that conceal, or only honor, adornment. She has her gaze on the long sweep of her personal history. She reflects on old wounds, key mistakes and certain joys. She pushes against clichéd thinking or feeling. She is hard on herself, in these poems, in ways few poets are. She honors the complicated narratives of race, of being female, of living a long life and works to discern the point of it all. I've read and taught Sherry Quan Lee's work for a very long time now and am grateful for this new collection .--Deborah Keenan, author of ten collections of poetry and a book of writing ideas, from tiger to prayer
Learn more at blog.SherryQuanLee.com
From Modern History Press
from being a mixed-race girl who passed for white to being a woman in her seventies who understands and
accepts her complex intersectional identity; and no longer has to imagine love. It is a follow-up to the
author's previous memoir (prose), Love Imagined: a mixed-race memoir, A Minnesota Book Award finalist.
Praise for Sherry Quan Lee's Septuagenarian
In Septuagenarian, Sherry Quan Lee accepts her own invitation to look at life in retrospect, but with
a new lens. Pulling from and expanding upon her previous body of work, she examines the version of herself
that was writing at that time. The dignity and fire of her seventy-three-year-old gaze taking in snapshots
of those selves...straightens my spine and gives me a vision for myself traveling today into my future
septuagenarian. --Lola Osunkoya, MA, LPCC
Sherry Quan Lee writes courageously to understand herself and the world. She uses rich language and her
skills as a storyteller to focus her sharp lens on what it means to have a complex, sometimes complicated
identity: becoming invisible as she ages, a history of passing unseen, love and sex, grieving and celebration.
She ruminates on history, which repeats itself in the current moment and widens her lens to look at the bigger, global picture to tell truths in poems that tenderly hold memory, time, rituals, trauma, mothering, fear of death and love in many forms. Her poems offer deeply personal, intimate and perceptive insights and
opportunities to reflect on what it means to truly live. It feels like I've taken the journey with her,
and I'm wiser for it. --Shay Youngblood, author of Soul Kiss and Black Girl in Paris
Sherry Quan Lee writes with a purity of intention. She has no interest in certain kinds of poetics that conceal, or only honor, adornment. She has her gaze on the long sweep of her personal history. She reflects on old wounds, key mistakes and certain joys. She pushes against clichéd thinking or feeling. She is hard on herself, in these poems, in ways few poets are. She honors the complicated narratives of race, of being female, of living a long life and works to discern the point of it all. I've read and taught Sherry Quan Lee's work for a very long time now and am grateful for this new collection .--Deborah Keenan, author of ten collections of poetry and a book of writing ideas, from tiger to prayer
Learn more at blog.SherryQuanLee.com
From Modern History Press
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940162393719 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Modern History PRess |
| Publication date: | 03/14/2021 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 1 MB |
About the Author
Sherry Quan Lee, MFA, University of Minnesota, is the author of Chinese Blackbird, a memoir in verse; How to Write a Suicide Note, serial essays that saved a woman’s life; Love Imagined: a mixed-race memoir (a Minnesota Book Award Finalist); and, the picture book And You Can Love Me a story for everyone who loves someone with ASD—all published by LHP, Modern History Press, Ann Arbor, MI. She is the editor of How Dare We! Write: a multicultural creative writing discourse, an anthology finding home in university writing classrooms.
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