"Jody Chan writes, 'have you ever found your specific wounds curled up in a song / written by someone else?' SICK is medicine and music....
"Jody Chan writes, 'have you ever found your specific wounds curled up in a song / written by someone else?' SICK is medicine and music. This book unearths a tenderness unknown to me before reading these poems and witnessing their 'humble magic.' Chan's lyric is a landscape I return to find myself. How lucky are we to be living and reading while Jody Chan is writing and teaching us how to be 'warm & unafraid'-what a tremendous, marvelous gift."
-Yujane Chen
"This striking debut-poems of history, of beauty, of violence, of grief-will surprise you at every turn of phrase and page. Chan's work is innovative, their treatment of the universal human condition meticulously unique. Do not miss this collection."
-Erica Dawson
"In SICK, Jody Chan examines loss through brilliant and stunning lyric, each poem urgent with gentle ferocity. So much exists here in the absence of what is said, so much feels vestigial-a phantom limb that keeps aching through deftly crafted nuance, simply mesmerizing. The many exigencies of grief appear and reappear in this collection like a 'hungry ghost, ' but Chan proclaims/reclaims, 'this is a love story this is a love story this is a love story.'"
-Jay Ward
Author: Jody Chan
Publisher: Black Lawrence Press, Inc.
Published: 08/14/2020
Pages: 85
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781625578198
About the AuthorChan, Jody: - Jody Chan is a writer, drummer, organizer and therapist based in Toronto. They are the author of
haunt (Damaged Goods Press, 2018), ALL OUR FUTUREs (PANK, 2020), and SICK (Black Lawrence Press, 2020), winner of the 2018 St. Lawrence Book Award. Their work has been nominated for Best of the Net and Pushcart prizes, and has been published in
Third Coast, BOAAT, Yes Poetry, Nat. Brut, The Shade Journal, and elsewhere. They have received fellowships from VONA and Tin House. They can be found in online or offline at bookstores or dog parks.
