"Asa Drake's incisive debut chapbook, ONE WAY TO LISTEN, carves through simplistic narratives, filling in the new space with 'nests of small animals, ' surreal details that promote curiosity and 'room for uncertainty.' Operating with furious imagination, these poems return to interlocking loves: of family, place, and self--love especially in resistance to rising violence that this speaker, a Filipina American woman, is positioned to live in acute...
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