If you’re looking for a wonderful weekend read, we heartily recommend the poetry collection Careen, by poet, journalist and educator Grace Shuyi Liew (published by Noemi Press, and on our shelves right now!)

Claire Bowman just published a review of the collection and an interview with Grace over on the Host Publications’ blog, and it’s well worth a read:

[Careen] captures the strangeness of our times, and the particular strangeness of being an Asian woman living in America. These poems are fierce. They are naked and unadorned, completely without fear even as they enter into the most unstable spaces of the mind, the body and the spirit. This book is a necessary handbook for all of us who are navigating the treacherous sociopolitical climate. It shows us how to remain human, even as we feel more and more alien in our own minds. 

You can read the entire review and interview here, and then stop by the store to pick up a copy of Careen!