Precedented Parroting by Barbara Tran

Opening with an exit, the poems in Precedented Parroting accept no assumptions. With the determination and curiosity of a problem-solving crow, this expansive debut plumbs personal archives and traverses the natural world, endeavouring to shake the tight cage of stereotypes, Asian and avian. Praised as "lively and intelligent" and "lyrically delicious," Barbara Tran's poetry offers us both the keen eye and grace of a hawk, "red-tailed gliding / on time." (From Palimpsest Press)

• Books by past CBC Nonfiction Prize finalists being published in 2024
• 13 poetry collections by past CBC Literary Prizes winners and finalists from 2024

Barbara Tran was born in New York City and is now based in Toronto. Her writinghasappeared in Women's Review of Books, Ploughsharesand The New Yorker. Honours include a MacDowell Colony GeraldFreund Fellowship, Pushcart Prizeand Lannan Foundation Writing Residency. Tran waslonglisted for the 2018 CBC Nonfiction PrizeforLiving Room.