paisley rekdal

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Asian American Studies. Native American Studies. INTIMATE is a hybrid memoir and "photo album" that blends personal essay

Once in 1931, fresh from Hong Kong, you posed for the camera in a silk dress, still as if stuffed, aware and not aware the foreign shores were home. Y

This collection of probing and provocative poems touch on atoms and torture, tattoos and laundromats, and the theory of light as they join in shaping

Uses a violent incident that took place in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2012 as a springboard for examining the long-term cultural and psychological effec

A Tupelo Press Lineage Series publicationIntimate is a hybrid memoir and “photo album” that blends personal essay, historical documentary, and poetry

A timely, nuanced work that dissects the thorny debate around cultural appropriation and the literary imagination.

To hold the reins idiom; metaphor To be in charge of, to be in complete control of; yourself, a situation, people or all of the above. Cecilia "CeC