The Shadow List Launch Party

Upstart & Crow

The official launch of The Shadow List by Jen Sookfong Lee

Join us to celebrate the launch of The Shadow List: Jen Sookfong Lee&#x27;s anticipated debut collection of poetry. Jen will speak with poet Rob Taylor about her &quot;vivid, sophisticated&quot; new work. About the Book: “The Shadow List confronts the complex archives of the body, reminding us of our own impermanence. In lyrical poetry of exquisite and generous vulnerability, Jen Sookfong Lee defiantly bares the body in its many forms: animalistic, desiring, shunned, survived, urban, maternal, aging and – unforgettably – miraculous. Lee writes with searing intimacy and gripping urgency, striving always to capture the ever-fleeting now.” – Gillian Sze, author of PanicleIn these devastating lyric poems Jen Sookfong Lee unfolds the experience of her narrator, following her through frost-chilled nights and salt-scented days, as she pulls at the knot of accumulated expectations around her trying to create space to want and to be. The Shadow List is a book filled with desire, where we question the politics of who gets to choose and who doesn&#x27;t and where the narrator creates hidden lists of what she really wants. With a novelist&#x27;s way with character, Lee builds a deep connection with the narrator of the poems, yet each individual poem creates a vivid snapshot of moments many will recognize. The slick of black ice, the killing light of day, the cheap, plastic diamonds – they are all pieces of a life we gather and put in our pockets to remember with.About the Author: Jen Sookfong Lee was born and raised in Vancouver’s East Side, and she now lives with her son in North Burnaby. Her books include The Conjoined, nominated for International Dublin Literary Award and a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, The Better Mother, a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award, The End of East, Gentlemen of the Shade, and Chinese New Year. Jen teaches at The Writers’ Studio Online with Simon Fraser University, edits fiction for Wolsak &amp; Wynn, and co-hosts the literary podcast, Can’t Lit.

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