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Togetherness by Wo ChanA debut poetry collection in which non binary poet and drag performer Wo Chan recounts stories from their queer childhood and adolescence. Togetherness sends out sparks from its electric surface, radiating energy and verve from within its deep and steady emotional core: stories of the poets immigrant childhood spent in their familys Chinese restaurant, culminating in a deportation battle against the State. These narrative threads weave together

and vulnerable

alongside the evocative nostalgia of vintage image—a map from which Howard has pieced together the bright but uneven path of growing up in the shadow of a "model" mother

The title poem refers to the once-held belief that the king

"-Denise Duhamel

to a bubble bath with Bjӧrk

and highlights the enduring bonds between the living

very accessible and utterly American in tone and language

we honor what was

and Bushwick along the way

She has received the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize

forge human connections

—Sarah Giragosian

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