{"product_id":"as-she-appears-9781936919895","title":"As She Appears","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLonglist, 2023 National Book Award in Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner, 2023 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist, 2023 Northern California Book Award Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLonglist, 2022 Julie Suk Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner, 2019 YesYes Books Pamet River Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShelley Wong's debut, As She Appears (longlisted for the 2022 National Book Award and winner of a 2023 Lambda Literary Award), foregrounds queer women of color in their being and becoming. Following the end of a relationship that was marked by silence, a woman crosses over and embodies the expanse of desire and self-love. Other speakers transform the natural world and themselves, using art and beauty as a means of sanctuary and subversion. With both praise and precision, Wong considers how women inhabit and remake their environment. The ecstatic joys of Pride dances and late-night Chinatown meals, conversations with Frida Kahlo, trees that \"burst into glamour,\" and layers of memory permeate these poems as they travel through suburban California, perfumed fashion runways, to a Fire Island summer. Wong writes in the space where so many do not appear as an invitation for queer women of color to arrive in love, exactly as they are.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"YesYes Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50888940978450,"sku":"9781936919895","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_077a255c-a915-498c-bfea-dea6c4f7db05.jpg?v=1738159163","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/as-she-appears-9781936919895","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}