Past Lives, Future Bodies

31st Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalist (Lesbian Poetry)

In her debut short collection, poet Kristin Chang bursts onto the page and into our consciousness like a dazzling, dizzying uproar: " I suck / until my teeth riot / with rot & I have nothing / left in my mouth to keep / quiet."

Quiet Chang' s speakers are not. In these nineteen poems, the body is personal and communal, hunter and hunted: " My mother says / women who sleep with women / are redundant: the body symmetrical / to its cr...