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Toronto launch of The Sacred Heart Motel
“I’m sick / of outsourcing care to desire” writes Grace Kwan in this sure-footed, arrestingly wise début, and this axis, between fantasies of belonging and the experience of being held, is perhaps at the core of the book, threaded through each poem. If “again and again I’ve abandoned my urgency / for the romance of cruelty,” how does that self in each of us return?
— River Halen, author of Dream Rooms
Join Grace Kwan for the Toronto launch of THE SACRED HEART MOTEL, taking place at Another Story Bookshop.
Featuring special guest Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi
In poet Grace Kwan’s debut, they are ruthless and nimble, guiding us through the recesses of body and roadside space. The reader tours the motel through this multiverse narrative, from amenities to rooms to back alleys, through the generations of ghosts and queer love stories, until they are left alone with the heart at the centre. The Sacred Heart Motel is a disorienting, startling collection about placelessness and longing.
Grace Kwan , sociologue et autaire originaire de Malaisie, vit à « Vancouver », sur les territoires non cédés des peuples Musqueam, Squamish et Tsleil-Waututh. Ses poèmes récents ont été publiés Canthius, Room Magazine, et d’autres revues. Son site Web est disponible ici: https://grckwn.wordpress.com/.
Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi is a queer, Iranian-born, Toronto-based poet, writer and translator.
Another Story Bookshop has a step-free entrance but no wheelchair accessible washrooms. We ask that attendees wear masks.