Status Update Sarah by Yi-Mei Tsiang
Each poem is written like a Facebook post complete with Like, Comment, Share and time stamp under each title. Cleverly written would be an understatement.
Amazon USAStatus Update Paperback – December 1, 2013 by Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang (Author)
- Publisher : Oolichan Books (December 1, 2013)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 88 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0889822964
- ISBN-13 : 978-0889822962
- Item Weight : 4 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.26 x 8.53 inches
Reviewed by LB Sedlacek
Each poem is written like a Facebook post complete with Like, Comment, Share and time stamp under each title. Cleverly written would be an understatement. What if your social media life was written in poetry? The titles, as a Facebook friend, are almost a stand alone poem unto themselves: “Alice Burdick Hazel, to a toy fish in a colander: “Don’t talk; you’re not real.” And then she writes lines like these: “There is nothing you own here. / Even the earth’s slow progression / around the sun is leased.” from the poem “Jennifer Coon Happy Steal Something From Work Day!”
About the Author
Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang is the author of Sweet Devilry (Oolichan Books 2011), which won the Gerald Lampert prize in 2012 and the editor of Desperately Seeking Susans (Oolichan 2012). She is also the author of several children's books, including A Flock of Shoes, and The Stone Hatchlings, with Annick Press. Sarah's work has been published and translated internationally.