Tell It Slant by John Yau

Tell It Slant

John Yau

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Emily Dickinson begins one of her poems with the oft-quoted line, "Tell all the truth but tell it slant." For Asian Americans, the word "slant" can be heard and read two ways, as both a racializing and an obscuring term. It is this sense of doubl...

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