Thankful for this book, and Michael Chang's ability to weave seamlessly in between scenes, to honor the full ecosystem of a narrative-people, places, images, metaphor. This is a rich book, it felt like stepping into a generous and welcoming world.\n-HANIF ABDURRAQIB\nMichael Chang's debut collection is bold, unapologetic, and vibrantly defiant. An interrogation into the confines that govern us on our nation's journey to racial and gender equality.\n-RICHARD BLANCO\nThis book attempts to have more fun and fuck more shit up than any debut collection I've ever read. Michael Chang's irreverence is an ethos, their way of pushing back against a culture that finds them "disposable ... not colored/White enough ... not the arbiter of anything ..." Against that tide, Chang stands the fuck up and says things most poets wouldn't dream of saying, in the process queering American poetry in a bracingly necessary way.\n-JASON KOO\nMichael Chang hits hard and refuses to apologize. Unabashedly crass, brash, provocative and funny, these poems, beneath their comic exteriors, explore an American landscape full of joy and despair-never flinching from the big subjects of desire, belonging, sexuality and race. Chang takes everything in, somehow managing to console even as they trouble us. Once you start reading, it's hard to look away. As they write: "I will dominate you. I will come back."\n-BRUCE SNIDER\nThis collection is, and I mean this literally, everything: grief-full and endlessly flirtatious, an epic ars poetica with an undercurrent of hero's journey, incisive critique of white supremacy and PoBiz, a little hurty and hurt, bursting with heart and language lavish with tinder and fire. We don't need Whitman. We've got Michael Chang to take us beyond the beyond. We're heading out now. It's "time for the beautiful revenge of self-love."\n-TC TOLBERT

Boyfriend Perspective

Literature & Fiction

Chang, Michael

Poetry

Really Serious Literature

Racial Politics in an Era of Transnational Citizenship: The 1996 'Asian Donorgate' Controversy in Perspective

The Asian American activist and political communities viewed 1996 as a watershed year, in which the Democratic Party took seriously its Asian American constituency―until the "Asian Donorgate" campaign finance controversy complicated that representation. In the ensuing public discourse Chinese Americans, and by proxy all Asian Americans, were depicted as foreigners subversively attempting to buy influence with U.S. politicians. While neither disputing nor confirming the guilt of the individuals charged in this episode with raising illegal foreign campaign money, Racial Politics in an Era of Transnational Citizenship highlights the conflation of Asian transnational capital and government interests with Asian Americans and the resulting racialization, foreignization, and even criminalization of this large community. Scholar Michael Chang asks, Will the perception of the Asian American as the "perpetual foreigner" continue to reproduce itself uncritically, heightening during times of media-supported nationalism? This incisive work contributes greatly to current debates on civil rights and on the meaning of "citizenship" and "belonging" among a transnational community and in a globalized world.

History

Americas

Lexington Books

Following 1996's 'Asian Donorgate' campaign finance controversy, Chinese Americans, and by proxy all Asian Americans, were depicted in U.S. public discourse as foreigners subversively attempting to buy influence with U.S. politicians. Racial Politics in an Era of Transnational Citizenship asks, Will the perception of the Asian American as the 'perpetual foreigner' continue to reproduce itself uncritically, heightening during times of media-supported nationalism? Scholar Michael Chang's incisive work contributes greatly to current debates on civil rights and on the meaning of 'citizenship' and 'belonging' among a transnational community and in a globalized world.

Often characterized as David facing Goliath on the tennis court, at 5'9" and 150 pounds Michael Chang is used to playing with the big hitters. What he lacks in stature, he makes up for in determination. A serious contender at any Grand Slam event, his bold statement of faith in God makes him a role model we can all look up to. "What's nice," Michael says, "is that, as long as my priorities are straight, I'm able to go out with the mentality to really leave the winning and losing up to the Lord." In Holding Serve readers get a unique glimpse at Team Chang, Michael's powerful family unit that he credits with much of his success. Michael also shares the story of how he became a Christian and the central role his faith has played in his achievements.

Holding Serve Persevering On And Off The Court

Biographies & Memoirs

Thomas Nelson. Inc.

Tennis pro Michael Chang shares his personal story of faith, family, and the determination that made him one of America's greatest athletes.

Holding Serve: Persevering On and Off the Court

Leaders & Notable People

Thomas Nelson

<div>A new poetry collection from award-winning author Michael Chang &nbsp; A vital breath of life arrives in American poetry with Synthetic Jungle, the latest collection from acclaimed poet Michael Chang. With poems in a register both hilarious and scathing, Synthetic Jungle effortlessly bashes convention while simultaneously rebuilding the language we use to communicate our fears and joys. &nbsp; Synthetic Jungle is a collection written by a brilliant jester who winks at you as you catch their every reference before sharing a laugh at your own self-satisfaction. Themes of identity, sexuality, and literacy play out in a dizzying rhythm of microtheaters. Readers will find themselves giggling, snorting, and guffawing their way through this work: whether at a repudiation of the literary landscape or a critique of a failing justice system, to laugh along with Chang is to recognize your mistakes and, ultimately, grow from them. &nbsp; Fractal and kinetic in the quick-witted spirit of John Ashbery and Emily Dickinson, Chang's tender poems dance around, between, and through the personal and philosophical. Synthetic Jungle is as sweet as it is grand, and beneath its sarcastic grin reverberates an immense, open heart. &nbsp;</div>

Synthetic Jungle: Poems

Curbstone Books 2

Review\n“Irreverent, immediate, and delectably shady.” 
—MARK BIBBINS 
“Take a multitude of hyperkinetic punchlines, excise all connective tissue, ('Most poems should be no words / Most poems too long & too explainy'), and all the old news images like horseshoe crabs, bone dust, and marrow, then 'suck & fuck / shop like Michael Jackson,' and caffeinate until its 'little bunny heart is pounding,' and you’ll have something resembling Michael Chang’s breakneck masterpiece Almanac of Useless Talents. I love Chang’s lexicon of text abbreviations, Chinese characters, smiley faces, and pop culture frippery which seed and aerate the undercurrent of lyric yearning with spontaneous typographic mini-bombs. Romanticism is blown up, as is romance— 'you said all of our love, could fit in a tiffany box, you meant this in a good way, i said so can a turd.' Beneath the delicious judginess and the literary criticism delivered with the energy of gossip is a foundation of political and literary acuity, rage, yes, and yes, pain, but in a dismal time, this book refuses to be dismal. 'Every day I live in fear of being misidentified as another Azn poet but then I realize there’s no one like me,' Chang writes, and it’s true. The ferocious brag is real, and it’s a helluva pushback on the forces of disappearance.” 
—DIANE SEUSS 
“Here comes Michael Chang’s superb Almanac of Useless Talents, sampling from our absurd and dangerous zeitgeist, daring you to say 'poetry shouldn’t talk like that' (or about that), hilariously insulting to various po- and show-biz celebrities, withering about white people’s antics, journeying way beyond 'sex positive' into a territory where sex is ubiquitous, omnivorous, fun(ny) (sometimes), ridiculous (often)—but still here, as in the old poetry about desire, not getting what one wants in the way one wants is a frequent source of pain. Radically non-dual—praising the most solicitous lover, who turns out to be Satan—and 'Always remembering not to give a damn,' Chang pulls the rug out from under sublimity, but equally from irony. If I’d had access to this wise book when I was 10, I would have been happier, and queerer, quicker.” 
—PATRICK DONNELLY 
“In case your motto is 'If you don’t have anything nice to say, come sit by me,' save a seat for Michael Chang’s Almanac of Useless Talents. Irreverent, immediate, and delectably shady, Chang’s poems spare no one, whether they’re clocking celebrities or exes or poets (who all pretty much deserve it). This book isn’t just a whirlwind of spirited invective, although I’d still be fully entertained if it were, given how deftly Chang works in that mode. Look closer and you’ll find moments of tenderness and vulnerability too: 'Honesty is not a special place / But you would be there with me.'" 
—MARK BIBBINS 
“Michael Chang’s poetry collections are praised for their biting wit and humor, for their critique of injustice, for their juxtaposition of highbrow and low, for their velocity, their leaps, their sense of scale, for their sweeping range of style and subject and tone. The praise is well-earned and accurately describes Chang’s newest book, Almanac of Useless Talents. With stinging banter and righteous indignation, Chang calls out a system rigged against queerness, against people of color, drawing desire’s obsessive nature and its inevitable pain into sharp focus. Chang reminds us that the bawdy, the blunt, the quip are as much a part of poetry as the romantic, the eloquent, the aphoristic. Chang’s poems inspire us to critique what we love, not in spite of that love, but because of it.” 
—BLAS FALCONER 
“Overflowing with sass and razorsharp attitude, Michael Chang’s Almanac of Useless Talents sashays on the runway into a whirlwind world that’s part bacchanal, literary carousel, interrogation, TMZ, court proceeding, and carnival with a cast of plenty: Azns, 'white ppl & their holiday stories,' and boys, boys, boys as lovelorn love objects. If only dissatisfaction, jealousy, comeuppance, glee, and en

Almanac of Useless Talents

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

CLASH Books

Watching Your Back: Injury Prevention for Junior Athletes

Sports & Outdoors

Chang, Gerry

Golf

Independently published

Video Game Careers Demystified: Trifecta of Game Makers, Athletes, and Ecosystem in a Thriving Industry

Children's Books

Activities, Crafts & Games

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