LP’s Reviews > Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning > Status Update

“unlike the organizing principles of a bildungsroman, minor feelings are not generated from major change but from lack of change, in particular, structural racial and economic change. rather than using racial trauma as a dramatic stage for individual growth, the literature of minor feelings explores the trauma of a racist capitalist system that keeps the individual in check.”

“I suspected that if a reader read my poem and then saw my name, the fuse of the poem would blow out, leading the reader to think, I thought I liked the poem but on second thought, I can't relate to it. But what proof did I have of this?
How did I know it wasn't simply because I had no talent?
The problem was that I didn't know.”