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Overview
No one is safe in the world of Sabrina Guo's electrifying debut, Catalogue of Ripening. The village fish are poisoned with mercury. Children rehearse their endings with lockdown drills. A seawall becomes the sea. Balancing narrative impulse and lyric flair, Guo takes us on a journey from childhood to adolescence, from innocence to knowledge-the world no longer a site of wonder but corruption, contamination, cancer. Through poems that realize the world's capacity for violence first in language, then in action, Guo captures the unique anxieties-and joys-of growing up in Generation Z.
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- ISBN-13: 9780894091421
- ISBN-10: 0894091425
- Publisher: Children's Art Foundation - Stone Soup Inc.
- Publish Date: October 2022
- Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.15 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.24 pounds
- Page Count: 62
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