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)

Barbara Tran was born in New York City and is now based in Toronto. Her writing has appeared in Women's Review of Books, Ploughshares and The New Yorker. Honours include a MacDowell Colony Gerald Freund Fellowship, Pushcart Prize and Lannan Foundation Writing Residency. Tran was longlisted for the 2018 CBC Nonfiction Prize for Living Room.