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ORGANS OF LITTLE IMPORTANCE
From National Poetry Series winner Adrienne Chung, a debut poetry collection about psychology, love, and memory.
Taking its title from Darwin's On the Origin of Species, Adrienne Chung's debut collection asks why we cling so dearly to the vestigial parts of our psychologies - residues of first impressions, thought spirals to nowhere, memories that persist despite outliving their usefulness. The speaker in these poems tries to wear more color, indulges in Y2K nostalgia and falls in and out of love; a Jungian psychoanalyst has a field day with her dreams.
While Darwin was perplexed and ultimately dismissive of these seemingly useless body parts, ORGANS OF LITTLE IMPORTANCE reframes and repositions the apparent uselessness of our compulsions, superstitions, errant thoughts, and other selves. In diptychs and ghazals, sonnets and lullabies, Chung collects and preserves pieces of psychological debris as one would care for precious heirlooms, revealing their surprising potential to become sites of meaning and connection.
For readers of modern, wry, intelligent poetry and prose by Aria Aber, Marlowe Granados, Franny Choi, Catherine Cohen, Elif Batuman, Elisa Gabbert, Melissa Lozada-Oliva, and Chen Chen.
Adrienne Chung's poetry has appeared in The Yale Review, Joyland, Recliner, and the Washington Square Review and has been supported by the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. She is a graduate of Stanford University and the University of WisconsinMadison's MFA program.
While Darwin was perplexed and ultimately dismissive of these seemingly useless body parts, ORGANS OF LITTLE IMPORTANCE reframes and repositions the apparent uselessness of our compulsions, superstitions, errant thoughts, and other selves. In diptychs and ghazals, sonnets and lullabies, Chung collects and preserves pieces of psychological debris as one would care for precious heirlooms, revealing their surprising potential to become sites of meaning and connection.
For readers of modern, wry, intelligent poetry and prose by Aria Aber, Marlowe Granados, Franny Choi, Catherine Cohen, Elif Batuman, Elisa Gabbert, Melissa Lozada-Oliva, and Chen Chen.
Adrienne Chung's poetry has appeared in The Yale Review, Joyland, Recliner, and the Washington Square Review and has been supported by the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. She is a graduate of Stanford University and the University of WisconsinMadison's MFA program.
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Published 2023-10-10 by Penguin Poets |