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Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency by Chen Chen

10 reviews

courtneyfalling's review

emotional funny lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

I love how Chen Chen balances absurd humorous writing and unexpected turns of phrase with real, vulnerable self and interpersonal inspection. I will immediately trust buying anything Chen Chen writes.

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lifeinpoetry's review against another edition

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emotional funny reflective medium-paced

5.0

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siriface's review

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challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

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robinks's review

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challenging emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Another great collection by Chen! Navigating love and parents is never easy, especially as an Asian American queer person. Chen also does a lovely job of integrating difficult experiences with humor and storytelling. My favorites (in order of appearance):
- Doctor’s Note
- The School of Fury
- The School of Your Book/Letter to Jennifer S. Cheng
- Elegy While Listening to a Song I Can’t Help But Start to Move to
- One Year Later: A Letter
- Summer (p61)
- The School of Logic
- Chen No Middle Name Chen
- One Year Later: Her Answer
- I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party
- ode to my beloveds & brevities
- The School of Eternities
- The School of Joy

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jazhandz's review against another edition

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emotional funny reflective

3.5

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toph444's review

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emotional funny hopeful reflective slow-paced

5.0

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woolgatherer's review

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emotional funny reflective medium-paced

4.5

Equally heartwarming and heartbreaking, Chen Chen’s second poetry collection hits hard with his exploration of family relations (blood and chosen), as well as the queer Asian American identity. These poems very much so reflect on being alive in and part of a beautiful yet also fucked up world (especially in the United States).

A lot of love and care went into each poem, and I loved the way Chen expressed himself so freely, not only in form but in switching between languages as well. Because, sometimes, English is simply not enough to express oneself, especially when one is stuck in the in-betweens of cultures.

I was especially taken to the “a small book of questions” poems, finding Chen’s reflections—especially when he was writing about his mother—poignant. Another lovely collection from Chen, and I look forward to his next work.

Some favorites: “we’ll be gone after these brief messages,” the “a small book of questions” poems, “Elegy While Listening to a Song I Can’t Help But Start to Move to,” “One Year Later: A Letter,” “Origin Story,” and “Spring Summer Autumn Winter”

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fancymcgee's review

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

my friends and i went to chapters and spent 20 minutes trying to find the poetry collection, once we did we all sat down in the isle and pulled books out and laughed at how silly they were or how unoriginal and right before we left i pulled this one out and flipped to a small book of questions and i read it out loud and we all stopped. we sat in silence and i read another one. we drove home and while they got snacks from the gas station i sat in my car and read more.
Chen Chen reminds me why i love poetry.
thank you.

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cheezh8er's review

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emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

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skudiklier's review against another edition

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emotional funny reflective medium-paced

5.0

God this was amazing. Chen Chen's writing never disappoints, and this collection just blew me away. I was excited to see a couple poems I already knew, especially "Winter (big smelly bowel...)"--I think of that one all the time, and loved seeing how the feeling of reading it changes in this context too.

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