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As she appears / Shelley Wong.
Van Pelt Library PS3623.O5983 A7 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wong, Shelley (Poet), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Poetry.
- Women.
- Minority women--Poetry.
- Minority women.
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Queer poetry.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 81 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Portland, OR : YesYes Books, [2022]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Lambda Literary Awards - Lesbian Poetry, Winner, 2023
- ISBN:
- 9781936919895
- 1936919893
- OCLC:
- 1316776011
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