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Beast at Every Threshold
Beast at Every Threshold | Natalie Wee
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An unflinching shapeshifter, Beast at Every Threshold dances between familial hauntings and cultural histories, intimate hungers and broader griefs. Memories become malleable, pop culture provides a backdrop to glittery queer love, and folklore speaks back as a radical tool of survival. With unapologetic precision, Natalie Wee unravels constructs of otherness and names language our most familiar weapon, illuminating the intersections of queerness, diaspora, and loss with obsessive, inexhaustible ferocityand in resurrecting the self rendered a site of violence, makes visible the Beast at Every Threshold. Beguiling and deeply imagined, Wees poems explore thresholds of marginality, queerness, immigration, nationhood, and reinvention of the self through myth.
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xicanti
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I could say lots of cogent things about how Natalie Wee references her own lived experience, the historical record, various pieces of queer pop culture, and the wider contemporary poetical canon to produce something that feels entirely personal, deeply rooted to a particular story, and universal, all at once, but…

Well, I just wanna tell you I said, ”Fuuuuuuck” about a million times as I read.

Fuuuuuuuck.

5 stars

xicanti ALSO, there‘s a poem about the Sad In the Rain trope, and I don‘t call things perfect but IT‘S PERFECT. Fuuuuuuck. 2w
CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian I loved this book too! 2w
xicanti @CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian it‘s one of my best random library finds. 2w
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dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 2w
Mimi28 My library doesn‘t have it 😕 2w
xicanti @Mimi28 boo library. I hope they purchase it someday, or subscribe to the books side of Hoopla. My friend found it on there, though I don‘t know if they have the same catalogue in the US as we do in Canada. 2w
Mimi28 Sorry it took me so long to answer!! I found it on Hoopla!! Thanks for the recommendation 🫶🏽🩷😊 1w
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5☆Ferociously beautiful and brilliantly written!
A BEAST AT EVERY THRESHOLD is profoundly told. Exploring different thresholds of marginality, queer love, immigration, reinvention, disporia, pop culture, folklore, and ancestry. I have a new favorite poet! Wee's collection completely captivated me. Her words were written with such calculated purpose. I could feel them deeply while also being visually stimulated by the story she was telling.

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CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian
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A truly incredible collection of poetry. Themes include queer love and desire; pop culture; immigration; racism and being othered; pets and plants; diaspora; myth and folklore; parenthood and childbirth. Intertextual in nature, the poems are delightfully and fiercely innovative in their form, style, and word play. (One is a crossword puzzle!) Her word choice is often uncanny, making mundane words strange and wonderful in their unexpected use.

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