Description

Wendy’s Subway,

Publication Date: October 15, 2024

Publisher Marketing: paperback

In her debut book, Amelia Zhou poses the question, How do I perform or not perform? Weaving together poems, fiction, and lyric essay, Repose follows an unnamed woman grappling with the limits of the self on the everyday stage of labor and routine, charting her emergent modes of resistance. She is already steps ahead, deftly shifting between worker and dancer, roving through the haunted space in which a performance has just ended, the ruins of a house, or a skyscraper aflame. Seeking the edges of formwhere it exceeds itself, where it breaks downRepose offers a narrative of girlhood invigorated by the mutual possibilities of dreaming and defiance.

Amelia Zhou’s Repose is the 2022 Open Reading Period Book Prize winner, and was selected by guest judge Asiya Wadud.