by Angelo Mao

Customs – Solmaz Sharif

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One of [the book’s] chief accomplishments . . . is its depiction of the relationship between the “actual” longing for lost homeland and the “metaphysical” hunger that becomes a state of being.

Pee Poems – Lao Yang

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The centering of urine rejects poetry’s traditional subjects in favor of a more egalitarian common denominator.