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Thankful for this book and Michael Changs ability to weave seamlessly in between scenes to honor the full ecosystem of a narrative-people places images metaphor. This is a rich book it felt like stepping into a generous and welcoming world. -HANIF ABDURRAQIBMichael Changs debut collection is bold unapologetic and vibrantly defiant. An interrogation into the confines that govern us on our nations journey to racial and gender equality. -RICHARD BLANCOThis book attempts to have more fun and fuck more shit up than any debut collection Ive ever read. Michael Changs irreverence is an ethos their way of pushing back against a culture that finds them disposable ... not colored/White enough ... not the arbiter of anything ... Against that tide Chang stands the fuck up and says things most poets wouldnt dream of saying in the process queering American poetry in a bracingly necessary way. -JASON KOOMichael Chang hits hard and refuses to apologize. Unabashedly crass brash provocative and funny these poems beneath their comic exteriors explore an American landscape full of joy and despair-never flinching from the big subjects of desire belonging sexuality and race. Chang takes everything in somehow managing to console even as they trouble us. Once you start reading its hard to look away. As they write: I will dominate you. I will come back. -BRUCE SNIDERThis collection is and I mean this literally everything: grief-full and endlessly flirtatious an epic ars poetica with an undercurrent of heros journey incisive critique of white supremacy and PoBiz a little hurty and hurt bursting with heart and language lavish with tinder and fire. We dont need Whitman. Weve got Michael Chang to take us beyond the beyond. Were heading out now. Its time for the beautiful revenge of self-love. -TC TOLBERT