{"product_id":"genghis-chan-on-drums-john-yau-9781632431004","title":"Genghis Chan on Drums","description":"\u003cb\u003eA diverse and cacophonous poetry collection tackling subjects from identity to current events.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e At once comic and cantankerous, tender and discomfiting, piercing and irreverent, \u003ci\u003eGenghis Chan on Drums\u003c\/i\u003e is a shape-shifting book of percussive poems dealing with aging, identity, PC culture, and stereotypes about being Chinese. Employing various forms, John Yau's poems traverse a range of subjects, including the 1930s Hollywood actress Carole Lombard, the Latin poet Catullus, the fantastical Renaissance painter Piero di Cosimo's imaginary sister, and a nameless gumshoe. Yau moves effortlessly from using the rhyme scheme of a sixteenth-century Edmund Spenser sonnet to riffing on a well-known poem-rant by the English poet Sean Bonney, and to immersing himself in the words of condolence sent by a former president to the survivors of a school massacre. Yau's poems are conduits through which many different, conflicting, and unsavory voices strive to be heard. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Yau\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1632431009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781632431004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Omnidawn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2021 pg. 91\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/22\/2021","brand":"John Yau","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44133443535103,"sku":"9781632431004","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_90c0b365-1e11-4cea-8da3-2535977743d0.jpg?v=1687486154","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/genghis-chan-on-drums-john-yau-9781632431004","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}