Carrie Chang: 13 books

These poems are written with a jazzy bee-bop melody, a secretive voice, a phalanx of sweet words and silky resonance. Lounge writing with a taboo slant in which poetry becomes seductive as the weaver of the word. A student from the NYU poetry cadre, Chang makes the art of dressing up a mystical rite...

In Carrie Changs winning fifth novel, The Quack, set in the beloved postcard city of Chinatown, San Francisco, the red planetary mists converge with hexagonal bagua wonder as old Chinese families convene with ghostly vexation, debating everything under the sun with sluggish pride and keen neo-religiosity....

In a glitterati of keen effects, Fork and Spoon presents the debacle of triumph over the dark side of humanity, where doubt and suspicion leave their precious mark of evil against the brighter side of the rainbow. In San Francisco Chinatown which describes a young Chinese American girls fascination...

These finely crafted ecofeminist poems cut from brown sugar and green cloth are the stuff of starfish whiz and Asian American turmoil, a yin-and-yang duo turned inside out with a glamorous hint of sassafras and old-time honey; dulcet verses written with slant rhymes in combination with shifting pictorial...

Two Shades of Regret is a sine qua non of Sino-thrill poems which border on the evanescent and the tripnotic hem of the roseate lyric, lovely paeans of blooming immortality as seen on the paintings of a Ming vase. These new eclectic poems, lush and ghostly, of hyacinth and radical etiology, draw from...

This imaginary repast of words, cut across a terra incognito of porcelain and useless dragonoid fever, is a feast of dynastic worth, love, and joy ra-ta-ta felt across the shimmering alphabetim of self-hood in a desperate world of unicorn inkwells and blue-tattoo monkeys. An heirloom of hoo-ha refundance...

These poems are superannuated haiku, missives from the velveteen earth, and sketches of a divine immortality. They are purlieus of eye-bending syllabics combined in hyphenated ghost-like form. Curved out in their final destiny, they smack of mild confession from a former journalist-turned-poet. These...

Inspired by Virginia Woolfs The Waves, Cloud Bristle is a cacophony of voices strung together like jetsam pearls glimmering in a set of fake teeth. Linda, Lucy, Lucinda, and Dorrie are four women on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Caught in the thrum of the moment in the paranoia-hungry monastery...

Raycious Life is a tale of two cities, a lumbago breeder of Chinese women and glorious hairdos, and a breathtaking novel of ennobling beauty and upheaval. Set in both Hong Kong and bustling New York City, this bustling story tells the riveting tale of six Asian American bratlings on the trail of action,...

Monkey-Town is a fantasy thriller that describes the joyride experience of Jenna Wu in SF Chinatown, her ups and downs, and her ultimate enlightenment.

“Diary of a Madwoman” is a Fiery tirade against the never-ending struggles of civilization, a confessional wide-eyed rant which rambles with hyacinth and azaleas on the fervent tongue, and tells the story of one crazy Chinawoman named Lydia who haunts the city Berkeley with her high-minded neurosis...

From the Taipei alleyways to the Manhattan art galleries, Eggie Jones is a fierce lover of Chinese women who are always wearing rose-colored spectacles from heaven; as Clarissa chases him around the globe, and they share their life together with high EQ candor and spasmodic wit, he says that egg-rolls...

As art therapy rapidly makes its mark across Asia, this book documents how the field of art therapy is taking shape as both a profession and a discipline in this region. It looks at how art therapists in Asia are assimilating Western models and adapting them to create unique home-grown practices. Building...