quiet of chorus

Vanessa Huang

$14.95

Publication Date: April 1st, 2018

Publisher:

UpSet Press

ISBN:

9781937357979

Pages:

Description

Vanessa Huang’s first book of poemsbears witness to an intimate terrain traversing pasts, presents, and futures within and surrounding political movements to end various embodiments of the prison industrial complex in the 2000s, California, and beyond. Making refuge in diaspora, the poems in quiet of chorus inhabit and transform the poet’s languages of heritage and migration into their own call-and-response syntax, inviting readers and listeners into prayer, pause, novel gesture towards freedom.

About the Author

Born in Berkeley and home in diaspora from California and Taipei to Atlanta, New York, and Tianjin, Vanessa Huang is a poet, artist, and cultural worker whose practice inherits teachings from the prison industrial complex abolition, gender liberation, and intersecting social justice movements over the last decade. A finalist for Poets & Writers’ 2010 California Writers Exchange Award and the 2014 Kundiman Poetry Prize, quiet of chorus is Vanessa’s first book of poems.

Praise for quiet of chorus

“quiet of chorus lifts up the often muffled lineages of resistance to normalized state violence in contemporary life. Huang’s embodied poem-worlds stoke our yearnings for freedom and wholeness, and help enliven the path forward.”

—Morgan Bassichis