Chan, Sylvia, authorThe Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University, publisher2018-03-072018-03-072018https://hdl.handle.net/10217/186398In We Remain Traditional, Sylvia Chan juxtaposes the elegy, the conflict, and the brashness of a relationship that summons wild musicality in its love and frustration. Through the speaker and Adam, the beloveds offer thirty-two consolations for the gendered history of Chinese American women--a break and affirmation of their traditions. What saves these two characters is their music--a peace treaty for the book's form or 'fractured paradise,' a language that protects and protests their bodies in Oakland, California. Marked by vulnerability and intimacy, Chan interrogates a young woman's childhood sexual abuse. In the vein of Stacy Doris and Paul Celan, Chan asks: because she is a child of violent tradition, what is her visceral grief? This is a speaker who aspires to create universal experiences for her listeners, to transform jazz into narrative. This is a wild, beautiful, and ambitious first book: Chan refuses to apologize for the terror in her conviction and compassion. To choose a man who is behind her sexual, psychological, and political exploitation is to forgive his narcissism, aggression, and addiction. To love, simply, is to live unafraid of pushing boundaries and of being happy--provided by publisher.ONE. Devotion Song -- TWO. Body Canopy; Piano Room; Anabatic Scat; Two Composers From Canton; One Eternal Drop of Gold; The Gravel is One More Thing to Pick Up; Or Else; Summertime; The Part About Fate or Counterpoint -- THREE. Mine is Probably an Owl; Brief Aspirations of Love & Genealogy; The Strafing in My Biological Story; All of This to Adam; Unasylumed; It Happened by Accident; No Point in Lucid California; Heat Burst; In the Bellows; The Part About Sacral & Nerve or Temperament; The Part About Love or Cadence -- FOUR. Virga; Formidable Handbook; Tues, Sept. 11; Prodrome; One Contour in the Narrative Break; Blues' Uppermost Organism; In the Garden; Unasylumed, Unarchived; Vanity; Personal Concept -- ONE*. Recapitulationborn digitalbooksengCopyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright.All rights reserved. User is responsible for compliance. Please contact The Center for Literary Publishing, attn: Permissions at creview@colostate.edu for use information.American poetry -- 21st centuryTextAccess is limited to the Adams State University, Colorado State University, Colorado State University Pueblo, Community College of Denver, Fort Lewis College, Metropolitan State University Denver, Regis University, University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver, University of Denver, University of Northern Colorado, University of Wyoming, Utah State University and Western Colorado University communities only.