Resemblance - by Jonathan Chou (Paperback)

About the Book

A haunting exploration of identity, memory, and trauma through poetry. In Resemblance, Jonathan Chou weaves together personal and historical narratives to explore his family's relationship to traumatic moments in Taiwan's modern history, including the White Terror and the 228 Incident. Through innovative forms and syntax, Chou creates spaces where

Book Synopsis

A haunting exploration of identity, memory, and trauma through poetry.

In Resemblance, Jonathan Chou weaves together personal and historical narratives to explore his family's relationship to traumatic moments in Taiwan's modern history, including the White Terror and the 228 Incident. Through innovative forms and syntax, Chou creates spaces where new meanings and selves can emerge.

Drawing on archival research and images, Chou critiques the role of photography and visual culture in mediating access to buried histories and generational trauma. This collection longs less for facts than a renewed relationship to loss and longing itself. For readers interested in Taiwanese history, Asian American identity, and the power of poetry to confront the past.

About the Author

Jonathan Chou is an Asian American poet, psychiatrist, and educator. He is the author of the poetry chapbook, Pomes, which was selected as a semifinalist for the 2022 Tupelo Press Snowbound Chapbook Award. His writing has appeared in Synapsis: A Health Humanities Journal, The Healing Muse, and elsewhere. He teaches in the Master of Science in Narrative Medicine Program at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. He grew up in Taipei, Taiwan, and currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.