Housebreak

Description

Shareen K Murayama's debut collection, Housebreak is a book of wild beauty and probing enquiry. Murayama asks how we live within perennial emergency, where belonging and self-protection converge, how we explain loss to children, what the wind has in common with hate crime. These heartbreaking poems are full of dance-like grace, and gut punches that send the reader off balance. Formally artful and disruptive, they seek out the breaths between words and worlds, applying biology, etymology, astronautics and myth. There is a gentle undoing, a quiet rage here, alongside great tenderness. Housebreak is stunning, apocalyptic, revelatory.

Product Details

Price

$13.99

Publisher

Bad Betty Press

Publish Date

July 21, 2022

Pages

Dimensions

5.5 X 8.5 X 0.15 inches | 0.2 pounds

Language

English

Type

Paperback

EAN/UPC

9781913268305

BISAC Categories:

American - Asian American

LGBT

Subjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss

European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

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About the Author

Shareen K. Murayama is the author of the poetry chapbook Hey Girl, Are You in the Experimental Group? (Small Harbor Publishing, 2022). She is a Japanese American, Okinawan American poet and educator. She's a 2021 Best Microfiction winner, a poetry reader for The Adroit Journal, and Assistant CNF Editor for JMWW. Her works have been published or forthcoming in The McNeese Review, The Willowherb Review, National Flash Fiction, The Margins, Bamboo Ridge Press, and elsewhere. She lives in Honolulu, Hawai'i. You can find her on IG and Twitter @ambusypoeming.

2023 PEN America Literary Awards Finalists