Things a Bright Boy Can Do - Paperback
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Things a Bright Boy Can Do
In Michael Chang's latest, all the world's a vaudeville stage, and this poet is its jester with a knife.
Like an elongated diss track, Chang's poems go from flirty to righteous, wrathful to lackadaisical, all in the span of one page. The titans of pop culture and poetry wrestle at Chang's whimsy, their poems a series of flings and retorts at the end of a late-night spree.
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Michael Chang (they/them) is the author of Synthetic Jungle (Northwestern University Press, 2023), Toy Soldiers (Action, Spectacle, 2024), and Things a Bright Boy Can Do (Coach House Books, 2025). They edit poetry at Fence.
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