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Slant

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Poetry when it works speaks intimatley to our personal experiences in a language we didn't know we understood. Andy Quan acheives this and more in Slant his first published collection of poems. It isn't easy to avoid the snare of identity politics in considering Quan's work.Canadian born, of Chinese descent this young gay poet has many hands he could play however his poetry wonderfully resonates to the cards we have all been dealt. The feeling of being a stranger, the exhiliration/terror of leaving the familiar behind be it a place or a person, the sudden wonder at our origins brought on by the death of a grandparent,the first night spent in a strange bed with an unfamiliar body. All of these and other experiences are unpacked like the souvenirs of a long journey, dusted and polished by Quan's extraordinary use of words and presented to us for inspection, inevidably causing us to say, Oh I've been there too. Such a young poet who has travelled so far surely has many more travel tales to tell. I look forward to hearing them.