{"product_id":"9781936919895","title":"As She Appears","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShelley Wong's debut, As She Appears, foregrounds queer women of color in their being and becoming. Following the end of a relationship that was marked by silence, a woman crosses over and embodies the expanse of desire and self-love. Other speakers transform the natural world and themselves, using art and beauty as a means of sanctuary and subversion. With both praise and precision, Wong considers how women inhabit and remake their environment. The ecstatic joys of Pride dances and late-night Chinatown meals, conversations with Frida Kahlo, trees that \"burst into glamour,\" and layers of memory permeate these poems as they travel through suburban California, perfumed fashion runways, to a Fire Island summer. Wong writes in the space where so many do not appear as an invitation for queer women of color to arrive in love, exactly as they are.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"YesYes Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48587709677801,"sku":"9781936919895","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0406\/5548\/7129\/files\/ibg.common.titledetail.gif?v=1752696554","url":"https:\/\/redstickreads.com\/products\/9781936919895","provider":"Red Stick Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}