He's So MASC

<p>This is my blood oath with myself: the only dead Chinese person I’ll write about from now on is me. – ‘Punctum’</p><p>In <em>How to be Dead in a Year of Snakes</em>, Chris Tse took readers back to a shocking 1905 murder. Now he brings the reader much closer to home. <em>He’s So MASC</em> confronts a contemporary world of self-loathing poets and compulsive liars, of youth and sexual identity, and of the author as character — pop star, actor, hitman, and much more. These are poems that delve into worlds of hyper-masculine romanticism and dancing alone in night clubs. With its many modes and influences, <em>He’s So MASC</em> is an acerbic, acid-bright, yet unapologetically sentimental and personal reflection on what it means to perform and dissect identity, as a poet and a person.</p>