Sasha Velour blurbed (and loved) it, so it has to be iconic. This drag performer and poet talks about queer childhood, non-binary identity, and immigration. Perfect read for waiting in line to get into three dollar bill ;)
— Ryan
For Wo Chan, the question of the personal & political isn't a question at all - it simply is, together, both of them braided into a fleshy twine of verse and formal experimentation. These poems are great, sexy, sensitive, alive. "This is the sum of an unfelt era / where glaciers shred to aqua. In this age / all things I do with love, with love I kept." Yes!!!
— HeatherWINNER of the 2023 Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature
Finalist for the Firecracker Award for Poetry
A debut poetry collection in which non-binary poet and drag performer Wo Chan recounts stories from their queer childhood and adolescence.
Togetherness 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.