Gutted

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While trying to make sense of this ever-churning, terror-filled world, poet Justin Chin found he kept travelling home to Southeast Asia - a region unnerved and raging with SARS and the Avian Flu - to help care for his father who had suddenly been declared terminally ill with cancer. Gutted is a document of growing older - a massively moving work of grief, loss, comfort and illness and resolve - imbued with Chin's unique screwy perspective, ever-defective grace and scabrous humour. Chin is downright charming. - Publishers Weekly

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"At his most flippant, Chin is downright charming." - Publishers Weekly"

Author Bio

Justin Chin is the author of two poetry collections, Harmless Medicine and Bite Hard and a collections of essays, Burden of Ashes (all available from Turnaround). Chin's writings have also been anthologised widely, notably in The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, American Poetry: The Next Generation, The World In Us and Chick For A Day. He lives in San Francisco.