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As she appears / Shelley Wong.

Author/creator Wong, Shelley (Poet) author.
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Portland, OR : YesYes Books, [2022]
Copyright Notice ©2022
Description81 pages ; 21 cm
Subject(s)
Abstract Shelley Wong's debut, As She Appears, foregrounds queer women of color in their being and becoming. Following the end of a relationship that was marked by silence, a woman crosses over and embodies the expanse of desire and self-love. Other speakers transform the natural world and themselves, using art and beauty as a means of sanctuary and subversion. With both praise and precision, Wong considers how women inhabit and remake their environment. The ecstatic joys of Pride dances and late-night Chinatown meals, conversations with Frida Kahlo, trees that "burst into glamour," and layers of memory permeate these poems as they travel through suburban California, perfumed fashion runways, to a Fire Island summer. Wong writes in the space where so many do not appear as an invitation for queer women of color to arrive in love, exactly as they are.
Genre/formQueer poetry.
Genre/formPoetry.
Genre/formQueer poetry.
Genre/formPoetry.
ISBN9781936919895 (paperback)
ISBN1936919893 (paperback)

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Joyner General Stacks PS3623 .O5983 A7 2022 ✔ Available Place Hold