How Do I Look? by Sennah Yee
Through a series of short vignettes, Sennah Yee’s debut full-length book How Do I Look? paints a colourful portrait of a woman both raised and repelled by the media. With pithy, razor-sharp prose, Sennah dissects and reassembles pop culture through personal anecdotes, crafting a love-hate letter to the media and the microaggressions that have shaped how she sees herself and the world. How Do I Look? is a raw and vulnerable reflection on identities real and imagined. Praise “In Yee’s poetry, whole worlds, multiple worlds, can live in just a few sentences, and countless people and histories can exist within one person’s body. It almost makes reading full novels feel silly when you can live a whole life in just one of Yee’s paragraphs. ” – Mitski, pop star “Sennah Yee’s How Do I Look? is a selfie through a webcam in the compact mirror tossed over the shoulder of a nightswimmer into a suburban chlorine pool. These poems are the hit radio lyrics that roll around in the mind before falling asleep, the silently crafted love poems for an unrequited crush written on a blog saved in drafts, the emails sent to one’s future self opened at a karaoke bar years later in another country. How Do I Look? made me look back and get home safe. I look in the rear view mirror to find flowers growing out of me. ” – Stacey Tran, author of Soap for the Dogs “Sennah Yee has written a book full of wit and fire. This is a work to read and reread. The individual pieces build on each other to reveal the fractured self beneath and the ways the Western world fractures people who ‘look like Mulan. ’ A fierce new literary voice. Don’t miss this one. ” – Matthew Salesses, author of The Hundred-Year Flood “At first glance, it might not seem as if How Do I Look? is about survival. But in each of these brief vignettes, Sennah Yee is tested over & over again by white supremacy, racism, fetishization, heteronormativity & all the other worst parts of Western culture that constantly deluge the screens & scenes of our upbringing. And yet, Sennah Yee survives every microaggression. Sennah Yee has teflon in her blood & How Do I Look? is sparkling sunset over Liberty City & absolute proof that she is bulletproof. ” – Orchid Cugini, author of I’m Just Happy To Be Here
Yee, Sennah: - Sennah Yee was born in 1992 in Toronto, Canada. Her two chapbooks about mopey couples, THE AQUARIUM and THE GL.A.DE, are at Dancing Girl Press. Her Cinema & Media Studies MA thesis was on gendered robot design. Her favourite drink is a mixed fruit juicebox.
| SKU | Nicht verfügbar |
| ISBN 13 | 9781988355085 |
| ISBN 10 | 1988355087 |
| Titel | How Do I Look? |
| Autor | Sennah Yee |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Metatron Press |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2023-04-20 |
| Seitenanzahl | 84 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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