\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;At his most flippant, Chin is downright charming.\u0026rdquo;\u0026mdash;\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile trying to make sense of this ever-churning, terror-filled world, poet Justin Chin found himself traveling repeatedly home to Southeast Asia\u0026mdash;a region unnerved and raging with SARS and the Avian Flu\u0026mdash;to help care for his father who had suddenly been declared terminally ill with cancer. In addition to his father\u0026rsquo;s illness, Chin was managing his own health and medical annoyances and preparing for a looming US citizenship test. At the beginning of this difficult period, Chin quietly vowed not to speak publicly about his troubles until they had been suitably resolved. These poems mark the end of that resolution. \u003ci\u003eGutted\u003c/i\u003e is a document of growing older\u0026mdash;a massively moving work of grief, loss, comfort, illness, and resolve\u0026mdash;imbued with Chin's unique screwy perspective, ever-defective grace, and scabrous humor.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJustin Chin\u003c/b\u003e is the author of two poetry collections, \u003ci\u003eHarmless Medicine\u003c/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBite Hard\u003c/i\u003e (Manic D Press), and two collections of essays, \u003ci\u003eBurden of Ashes\u003c/i\u003e (Alyson Books) and \u003ci\u003eMongrel: Essays, Diatribes and Pranks\u003c/i\u003e (St. Martin's Press). Chin\u0026rsquo;s writings have also been anthologized widely, notably in \u003ci\u003eThe Outlaw Bible of American Poetry\u003c/i\u003e (Thunder's Mouth Press), \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry: The Next Generation\u003c/i\u003e (Carnegie Mellon University Press), \u003ci\u003eThe World In Us: Lesbian and Gay Poetry of the Next Wave\u003c/i\u003e (St. Martin's Press), and \u003ci\u003eChick For A Day\u003c/i\u003e (Simon \u0026 Schuster). He has performed his work throughout the United States. He lives in San Francisco.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/div\u003e
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