id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
concept-2497	none	A Form of Work We'd Rather Not Do Alone: Chen Chen, Poetics of Relationality, and the Intersubjective Lyric I	2020	25	.pdf	application/pdf	7743	263	43	Throughout much of When I Grow Up, the “you” that Chen addresses is easy to identify and known, to a degree, by the speaker, whether the you is God, as in “Talking to God about Heaven from the Bed of a Heathen” or a significant other, as in “Irreducible Sociality.” Through its reformulation of lyric subjecthood around alternative identities, queer, relational intersubjectivity, and deployment of lyric address, Chen’s When I Grow Up creates a limited yet intersubjective lyric I, moving beyond a universalizing white lyric subject who is “overheard” toward a specific, autobiographical, marginalized lyric subject that expands the poetic space into one that is conversational and collective.	cache/concept-2497.pdf	txt/concept-2497.txt