Description

Newfound, chapbook

Publication Date: January 1, 2023

Publisher Marketing: Weaving botanical epistles with dreamscapes, road trips, and hauntings, Soil Called a Country reimagines the American West through personal, familial, and historical experiences of the Chinese diaspora. In her debut chapbook selected for the 2023 Emerging Poets Series, poet and anthropologist Grace H. Zhou probes what it means to make a home as an immigrant in a settler colonial nation. Through a speculative poetics of repair, she asks: How to tread softly, dream otherwise, create space for our elsewheres?