Dear Diaspora by Susan Nguyen faber beaches in the Caribbean

beaches in the Caribbean

Homelands contains poems of fondness

panicky or unable to cope

A hanged woman addresses the author of the Malleus Maleficarum

Dear Diaspora by Susan Nguyen faber beaches in the CaribbeanDear 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