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to an acute awareness of the restless nature of language itself

Stone Fruit is Rebecca Perry’s second collection

concrete poems

' —Andrea Moorhead

Dear Diaspora by Susan Nguyen Hannah Raymond-Cox to an acute awareness ofDear Diaspora is an unapologetic reckoning with history, memory, and grief. Parting the weeds on a small American town, this collection sheds light on the intersections of girlhood and diaspora. The poems introduce us to Suzi: ripping her leg hairs out with duct tape, praying for ecstasy during Sunday mass, dreaming up a language for buried familial trauma and discovering that such a language may not exist. Through a collage of lyric, documentary, and