Burden of Ashes

Floating somewhere between fiction and memoir, acclaimed poet and performer Justin Chin bounds with wild grace through actual events and imagined outcomes, reconciling what is lost, denied, outgrown, survived, remembered and reclaimed. In a literary dreamscape, the landscapes of childhood, homelands, bodies, lovers and desires succumb to whimsy, revision and denial, while family pets share equal time with snake killing, imagined passions and the enigmatic power of a good kiss.