Beast at Every Threshold

Natalie Wee

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Finalist:Lambda Literary Award -Lesbian Poetry (2023)

An unflinching shapeshifter, Beast at Every Threshold dances between familial hauntings and cultural histories, intimate hungers and broader griefs. Memories become malleable, pop culture provides a backdrop to glittery queer love, and folklore speaks back as a radical tool of survival. With unapologetic precision, Natalie Wee unravels constructs of "otherness" and names language our most familiar weapon, illuminating the intersections of queerness, diaspora, and loss with obsessive, inexhaustible ferocity--and in resurrecting the self rendered a site of violence, makes visible the "Beast at Every Threshold."

Beguiling and deeply imagined, Wee's poems explore thresholds of marginality, queerness, immigration, nationhood, and reinvention of the self through myth.

Book Details

Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Publish Date: Apr 5th, 2022
Pages: 80
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.90in - 0.50in - 0.30lb
EAN: 9781551528830
Categories: • LGBTQ+• Asian - Chinese• Women Authors

About the Author

Natalie Wee is a queer creator. She is the author of Our Bodies & Other Fine Machines (San Press, 2021) and Beast at Every Threshold (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2022). Her work was named first runner-up for the 2020 Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize, winner of the 2019 Blue Mesa Review Summer Contest for poetry, and a Best of the Net finalist. Born in Singapore to Malaysian parents, Natalie is currently a settler in Tkaronto and was part of Project 40 Collective, a Tkaronto-based pan-Asian artist community. She currently edits for Climate Justice Toronto and offers free services for BIPOC writers.

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Paul Semel

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Freelance writer for hire: music, movies, books, comics, video games, TV… (he/him)

Leading indie publisher of LGBTQ2S+ & BIPOC stories. Literary fiction & nonfiction, poetry, graphic novels, YA & children's. Tweets by Brian (BL) & Cynara (CG).

Congratulations to Natalie Wee @natweewriter, a finalist for a @LambdaLiterary Award in lesbian poetry for BEAST AT EVERY THRESHOLD! ♥️🌈 https://t.co/U0RgE2Olyu https://t.co/CkAfxCSU93

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