“By stitching the mundane to the profound, Abani renders a reclamation of a tender masculinity, an understanding of the relationship between joy and trauma, and a pursuit of the sacred.” –Indira Dahlstrom
“The trouble with wanting . . . is that the relationship between the public and private self’s desires is an ever-evolving matter.” –Margot Kahn
“Under Reginald Dwayne Betts’s watch, redaction becomes a beacon . . . a lightness under the weight shines through.” –Stacy D. Flood
“Don Mee Choi’s words point us toward a world beyond the American imagination.” —Woogee Bae
“Hong’s essays and poems ask how to write about a country’s murderous onset, when the bloody order continues?”—Paul Hlava Ceballos
“This is a collection about preservation.”—an essay by Luther Hughes
“Origin is first origin”—an essay by Natalie A. MartĂnez
“Poems don’t replace the organizing—they supplement it.”—an essay by Troy Osaki
“Who does stasis serve?”—an essay by Gabrielle Bates
“Vuong shows the world for the truth of all its sharp and beautiful teeth.” —a visual essay Tessa Hulls
