Togetherness Av Wo Chan

<p><b>WINNER of the 2023 Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature</b></p><p><b>Finalist for the Firecracker Award for Poetry!  </b><br></p><p><b>A debut poetry collection in which non-binary poet and drag performer Wo Chan recounts stories from their queer childhood and adolescence.</b></p> <p><i>Togetherness</i> sends out sparks from its electric surface, radiating energy and verve from within its deep and steady emotional core: stories of the poet’s immigrant childhood spent in their family’s Chinese restaurant, culminating in a deportation battle against the State. These narrative threads weave together monologue, soaring lyric descants, and document, taking the positions of apostrophe, biography, and soulful plaint to stage a vibrant and daring performance in which drag is formalism and formalism is drag—at once campy and sincere, queer, tender, and winking.</p>