{"product_id":"in-taking-apart-a-kaleidoscope-adam-zhou-9781945023248","title":"In Taking Apart a Kaleidoscope","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen can you tell a book of poems is really working? For me, it's when the poems provide revolutions on themes--like the tiniest clink of a kaleidoscope. Look at how Adam Zhou recognizes what stays with us, how \"the landscape will remain sullen \/ still dressed in a sullen light\" and yet the people are always leaving and returning, wounded or memory or truly breathing, even in stillness. Zhou's lyrics are a personal history unfolding before us. In a world where poems can shatter us in the best way, \u003cem\u003eIn Taking Apart a Kaleidoscope \u003c\/em\u003ereminds us that \"there's something new if your heart hasn't stopped\"--that we must dissect whatever comes up and hold it to light.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--Carly Joy Miller\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn Taking Apart a Kaleidoscope \u003c\/em\u003eis an arrangement of burning flowers. Adam Zhou has mastered the narrative of displacement. A world where people and objects are cloaked in words with multiple meanings. A house where \"locks prefer not to accept keys.\" Through these poems a young speaker reconciles collisions of language, culture, and family. With great attention to craft, Zhou finds his voice in a fractured world. --\"I'll collect the jagged pieces. Put them in a plastic bag.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--Robert Carr\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdam Zhou, a Chinese national, was born and raised in the Philippines. He won the Kathy Carlson and Emily Stauffer Award from \u003cem\u003eApogee\u003c\/em\u003e, and was one of ten Asian American high school writers included in \u003cem\u003eHyphen \u003c\/em\u003emagazine's Youth Poetry Folio for National Poetry Month in 2019. He is the founding editor of \u003cem\u003eThe McKinley Review\u003c\/em\u003e, a literary journal based in the international community of the Philippines and focusing on the natural environment. When this collection is launched, Zhou will be a high school senior at the International School Manila.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adam Zhou\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1945023244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781945023248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Indolent Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 60\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.14d","brand":"Adam Zhou","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48519675674879,"sku":"9781945023248","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b300697f-2602-47b9-80b1-ae46f703a100.jpg?v=1778738151","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/in-taking-apart-a-kaleidoscope-adam-zhou-9781945023248","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}