A Place Called No Homeland

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This powerful poetry collection seeks to map the emotional and spiritual territory of diaspora, violence, abuse, and exile. Kai Cheng incorporates autobiographical details from her own childhood and adult life with the rhythms of the oral storytelling tradition and fairytale motifs, poignantly depicting the plight of trans women of color.

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62 printed pages

Original publication: 2017
Publication year: 2017

Impressions

Melissa Verlorenshared an impressionlast year
🔮Hidden Depths
💧Soppy
Powerful so powerful
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Crystal Vega-Huertashared an impression3 years ago
👍Worth reading
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Quotes

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amber says, lying is the work

of those who have been taught that their truths have no value.

reading that one line

makes me want to slide myself between the book’s covers,

cry myself to sleep.

i’ve always needed books,

the way some of my punk queer friends need cigarettes,

or weed, or clear packets of molly the size of a thumbnail.
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Melissa Verlorenhas quotedlast year
a man told me once,

i’d like to wear heels in public,

but i’d also like to live

sometimes it’s important to be alive than to live
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Melissa Verlorenhas quotedlast year
condemned her to live alone on the moon, forever circling

between the heaven she dreamed

of and the home she left behind.

and this is why the moon always seems so lonely, why

the touch of moonlight always feels like tears
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