Beast at Every Threshold

An unflinching shapeshifter,Beast at Every Thresholddances 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 ferocity - and in resurrecting the self rendered a site of violence, makes visible the Beast at Every Threshold. Beguiling and deeply imagined, Wee's poems explore thresholds of marginality, queerness, immigration, nationhood, and reinvention of the self through myth. (From Arsenal Pulp Press)

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Natalie Wee is a queerauthor. Her other work includes the chapbookOur Bodies & Other Fine Machines.Her work was named first runner-up for the 2020 Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize, winner of the 2019 Blue Mesa Review Summer Contest for poetryand a Best of the Net finalist. Born in Singapore to Malaysian parents, Wee is currently a settler in Toronto.