Dear Diaspora John Goodby Grungy and queer

Grungy and queer

Fadhila el Farouk from Algeria

always hold the ultimate imaginative fascination and whose poems are reflections of a gifted and gifting sense of wonder and curiosity"

The Last of the Blonde Bombshells

Can new babies communicate without speaking

Dear Diaspora John Goodby Grungy and queerDear 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