Description

NightboatBooks, paperback

Publication Date:September 20th, 2022

Publisher Marketing:A debut poetry collection in which non-binary poet and drag performer Wo Chan recounts stories from their queer childhood and adolescence.

Togethernesssends 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 monologue, soaring lyric descants, and document, taking the positions of apostrophe, biography, and soulful plaint to stage a vibrant and daring performance in which drag is formalism and formalism is dragat once campy and sincere, queer, tender, and winking.