Description

Arsenal Pulp Press, paperback

Publication Date: April 5, 2022

Publisher Marketing:A forceful collection of poems that deconstructs the notion of otherness through folklore and myth.

An unflinching shapeshifter,Beast at Every Thresholddances between familial hauntings and cultural histories, intimate hungers and broader griefs. Memories become malleable, pop culture provides a backdrop to glittery queer love, and folklore speaks back as a radical tool of survival. With unapologetic precision, Natalie Wee unravels constructs of otherness and names language our most familiar weapon, illuminating the intersections of queerness, diaspora, and loss with obsessive, inexhaustible ferocityand in resurrecting the self rendered a site of violence, makes visible the Beast at Every Threshold.

Beguiling and deeply imagined, Wees poems explore thresholds of marginality, queerness, immigration, nationhood, and reinvention of the self through myth.