Author: Grace Kwan
ISBN: 9781998898169 (print)
ISBN: 9781998898183 (PDF)
ISBN: 9781998898176 (EPUB) * forthcoming
Cover art by Niki Hoi
- Paperback, 104 pages
- Printed in Quebec
- Published 2024
“One of the sheer brilliances of Kwan’s book is turning migration into a love poem and love into a migration. Don’t even try to separate the political from the personal; there are too many transient rooms in the heart, unregistered hearts in any given room. And, of course, there’s the border – of desire, home, identity – where all the action happens: ‘the convergence of lives, motivations / riding shotgun,’ as Kwan puts it, or rather wrenches it from our very hearts.”
—Carlos A. Pittella, recipient of a Frontier 2022 Global Poetry Prize
“’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
