Sage Paperback by Marilyn Chin

Product Details

• Publisher: WW Norton (2025-05-13)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 128 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781324110378
• Item Weight: 130.41 grams
• Dimensions: 8.23 x 6.12 x 0.34 cm

A rebellious, refined, provocative, and audacious volume from award-winning poet Marilyn Chin.

In her galvanizing sixth collection of poems, Marilyn Chin once again turns moral outrage into unforgettable art. A rambunctious take on our contemporary condition, Sage shifts skillfully in tone and register from powerful poems on social justice and the pandemic to Daoist wild girl satire.

A self-described "activist-subversive-radical-immigrant-feminist-transnational-Buddhist-neoclassical-nerd poet," Chin is always reinventing herself. In Sage, she sings fearless identity anthems, pulls farcical details from an old diary, and confronts the disturbing rise in violence against Asian Americans. Leaping between colloquialisms and vivid imagery, anger and humor, she merges the personal and political with singular, resilient spirit.

Whether she is spinning tall tales, mixing Chinese poems with hip-hop rhymes, reinventing lovelorn folk songs with a new-world anxiety, or penning a raucous birthday poem, a heartrending elegy, or an "un-gratitude" prayer, Chin offers dazzling surprises at every turn.

About the Author

Marilyn Chin has authored six poetry collections and a novel. She appears in The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Poetry and The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women, among others. A Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize recipient, she lives in San Diego, California.