Intolerable Violences: Writing into the Wound

Duy Doan examines the ambiguities and tensions that mark our efforts to know our histories, our loved ones, and ourselves in We Play a Game. Joseph Legaspi’s Threshold explores the fluidity of gender, time, and love in the seemingly perpetual in-between. In Not Here, Hieu Minh Nguyen navigates whiteness, trauma, family, and nostalgia in poems that ache with both loneliness and hope. Emily Jungmin Yoon’s A Cruelty Specific to Our Species confronts the histories of sexual violence against women, focusing on brutalities experienced by Korea’s so-called “comfort women” whose narratives have been erased and overlooked

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