A Place Called No Homeland

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This extraordinary poetry collection is a vivid, beautifully wrought journey to the place where forgotten ancestors live and monstrous women roamand where the distinctions between body, land, and language are lost. In these fierce yet tender narrative poems, Kai Cheng Thom draws equally from memory and mythology to create new maps of gender, race, sexuality, and violence. In the world of a place called No Homeland, the bodies of the marginalizedqueer and transgender communities, survivors of abuse and assault, and children of diasporaare celebrated, survival songs are sung, and the ancestors offer you forgiveness for not remembering their names. Descended from the traditions of oral storytelling, spoken word, and queer punk poetry, Kai Cheng Thom's debut collection is evocative and unforgettable.

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Kai Cheng Thom: Kai Cheng Thom is a writer and performance artist. Her essays, poetry, and fiction have been published or widely in print and online in such publications as Buzzfeed, Asian American Literary Review, xoJane, and Matrix. She is currently a feature writer at Everyday Feminism.