The Phoenix Gone, the Terrace Empty

Description:

The author is a Chinese-American whose father named her after Marilyn Monroe. "And there I was, a wayward pink baby/ named after some tragic white woman/ swollen with gin and Nembutal." With drawings by R. W. Scholes.

subjects: Asian Americans,  Asian American women,  Poetry,  Asian American women authors,  Asian American authors,  American poetry,  Women authors,  American women authors,  Poetry (poetic works by one author),  Asian american women--poetry,  Asian americans--poetry,  Ps3553.h48975 .p48 2009,  810