The first collection by award-winning performance artist/poet Justin Chin. In Bite Hard, Chin explores his identity as an Asian, a gay man, an artist, and a lover. He rails against both his own life experiences and society's limitations and stereotypes with scathing humor, bare-bones honesty, and unblinking detail. Whether addressing what really goes on in the kitchen of Chinese restaurants or a series of ex-boyfriends, all named Michael, Chin displays his remarkable emotional range and voice as a poet. His raw, incantatory, stream-of-consciousness poems confront issues of race, desire, and loss with a compelling urgency that reflects his work as in performance, speaking directly to an audience. Throughout this collection, Chin demonstrates his uncanny ability to convey thought-provoking viewpoints on a variety of controversial subjects.

Author: Justin Chin
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Manic D Press
Published: 04/01/1997
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.4lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9780916397470


Award: 1997 Lambda Literary Awards Nominee - Gay Poetry
Award: 1997 Firecracker Alternative Book Award Nominee - Poetry
Award: 1998 Firecracker Alternative Book Award Nominee - Poetry
Award: 1997 Lambda Literary Awards Nominee - Small Press

About the Author
Justin Chin is the author of two collections of poetry, Harmless Medicine and Bite Hard (Manic D Press), and two collections of essays, Burden of Ashes (Alyson Press) and Mongrel: Essays, Diatribes and Pranks (St. Martin's Press). In the 1990's, as a performance artist, he created several performance works that were presented nationally and abroad. He lives in San Francisco.