Return of the Chinese Femme

"Our favorite Triple Sonnet Heroine does indeed reawaken our desires for 'dishing' and 'decadence' in Return of the Chinese Femme. In their latest dazzling collection, Dorothy K. Chan guides us through sumptuous frolic and feasting . . . Never without humor, Chan takes on political and social inhibitions, turns them inside out and upside down, with a playfulness unique to the very mantra: 'and oh, I crave and I crave and crave and crave.' Return of the Chinese Femme won't leave you wanting, and yet wanting more from Chan, the next poem, the new collection which continues 'K is for kink. K is for knot. K is for kissing, / K is for king. Crown me.' -Rosebud Ben-Oni, author of If This Is the Age We End Discovery

"Chan's elegantly gargantuan appetite relishes everything from coconut and sago soup to Cantonese chicken wings; everything from 'deviled eggs to mac and cheese, and Heart Attack Burgers on secret menus.' Chan craves not only these litanies of dishes, but also sexual encounters with women and men, including those that 'defy gender'-and always saves room to savor pop culture icons like Dennis Rodman and Rob Lowe (as Hello Kitty). From her 'amuse-bouche' triple sonnets to her embedded recipes, Chan's work is delectably fiery. She moves between Asian and American cultures, as well as varied poetic forms, with finesse-and what (almost) rhymes with finesse? Fearless. That, for me, is the word to describe this book." -Christina Pugh, author of Stardust Media

"A juicy, fluffy, bouncy, and loud refusal of the mandate to enshrine the stereotype of the melancholic Asian prostate in the service of dominant understandings of our traumas. These poems are defiant in their exploration of the other side of hunger: the voracity and veracity of a femme's many appetites. Chan's verse is insatiably kinesthetic, persuasive in its strut, equally capable of evoking the exuberance of kinship and the scintillation of erotic connection. Because is it even a revolution if it does not romp? Please. Baby." -Divya Victor, author of CURB and KITH