Victoria Chang is the author of several poetry collections: Barbie Chang (Copper Canyon Press, 2017); Salvinia Molesta; Circle; and The Boss, winner of the PEN Center USA Poetry Award and a California Book Award. Other honors include the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award and a Pushcart Prize. She lives in Los Angeles and teaches in the MFA program at Antioch University.

Photograph by Margaret Molloy.

Barbie Chang’s Daughter Asks

by Victoria Chang

Barbie Chang’s daughter asks her
            why certain

princesses are never shown on
             box sets where


the Asian one went or the African
             one or the redhead at


least they have them Barbie Chang
People on couch
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