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    Anon
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    Anon

    By Sophia Terazawa

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    • Terazawa is the marvelous author of Deep Vellum title Winter Phoenix, which garnered praise from Maya Popa, Brandon Shimoda, and more. 
    • Her work is invested in post-colonialism and the Asian American experience
    • Great for stylistic fans of Layli Long Soldier or M. NourbeSe Philip
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDeep Vellum Publishing
    Release dateMar 21, 2023
    ISBN9781646052479
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      Book preview

      Anon - Sophia Terazawa

      Cover: Anon by Sophia Terazawa

      PRAISE FOR SOPHIA TERAZAWA’S WINTER PHOENIX

      Winter Phoenix gathers up the failures of witnessing. When we try to put violence into language, we have recourse only to devious translation, translations of ever-winnowing meanings. In other words, in the face of brutality, words would seem—in Terazawa’s speech—to ‘stand there and say nothing.’ Winter Phoenix constructs, as its central work, the poetic potentials of retribution, using the so-called truths of war, and of war’s war-like logics, as its primary material. These poems are indignant, historical intervention. They are themselves the question: ‘Who ordered this to happen?’

      —Anaïs Duplan, Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture

      Terazawa’s striking imagery draws attention to the fact that atrocity often unfolds amid beauty and asks us to consider what it means to find stunning images in times of trauma.

      —Layla Benitez-James, Harriet Books

      Anon

      SOPHIA TERAZAWA

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      DEEP VELLUM

      DALLAS, TX

      Deep Vellum Publishing

      3000 Commerce St., Dallas,Texas 75226

      deepvellum.org · @deepvellum

      Deep Vellum is a 501c3 nonprofit literary arts organization

      founded in 2013 with the mission to bring

      the world into conversation through literature.

      Copyright © 2022 Sophia Terazawa

      First edition, 2022

      All rights reserved.

      Paperback ISBN: 9781646052219

      eBook: 9781646052479

      Library Of Congress Control Number: 2022945308

      Cover art by Irina Kolesnikova

      Cover design and typesetting by

      David Wojciechowski | www.davidwojo.com

      Printed in the United States of America

      Contents

      Stay

      Julija

      Metelkova

      Eroseros

      Anon

      I

      Across the Willow, [Salix Babylonica]

      The Kiss

      The Kiss, Again

      Brave and Tiny Scholar

      Wake, [Anon]

      Love Lettering, [Anon]

      Roses, Mid-June

      How to Cut through Wire

      Operation End Sweep

      Painted Landscape

      Throwing Rose, [Anon]

      Triple Bridge

      Andante at Her Loom

      O, Lady Queen of Mercy

      II

      Before Rožnik Hill We Passed a Flutist in the Tunnel

      Invasive Love

      Alchemical Devices

      Echo Chamber

      Empress

      This, Our Empress and [Anon]

      Sleep, [Anon]

      Morning Freight

      Sage Possessed the Twang

      Thundering Rose

      III

      Quan Âm

      Book of Panda

      IV

      Self-Portrait as Ito Jakuchu’s Two Gibbons Reaching for the Moon

      Aurora

      Lesser Beasts

      ASMR, Rose, and Graphite

      Appetite

      Translating an Hour at the Loom

      On the Nature of Myrrh

      Coffee Portrait of a Dandelion Child

      Barrel Song

      Pygathrix Nemaeus

      Gibbons Howling

      Acknowledgments

      STAY

      For

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