ARGONAUT BOOKS

"Chen's crystalline debut explores memory, nostalgia, and identity in poems that jump-cut between locations-Barcelona, Berlin, Ithaca, New York City . . . Readers will savor this strong and cerebral study of selfhood."-Publishers Weekly "If Chen will have to keep writing forever to avoid dissonance between their present and written selves, in Perennial Counterpart they embrace writing's permanence, pinning down what does feel true, minute as it may be. While wrestling with transience, Chen's words do not merely pass over the reader-they are meant to stick."-Erin Evans, Full Stop "Chen's poems ...Read More