Two Poems: echolalia, echolalia

In her highly-lauded debut collection echolalia echolalia (Brick Books), B.C.-based poet Jane Shi considers queer, disabled, and diasporic experiences. Exploring various forms, Shi crafts an inventive debut that critiques ongoing inequities, dehumanizing ideologies, and the body politic.

Read two poems from the collection, below.

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Jane Shi lives on the occupied, stolen, and unceded territories of the xÊ·məθkÊ·É™yÌ“É™m (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and sÉ™lilÌ“ilwÌ“É™taʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations. Her writing has appeared in the Disability Visibility Blog, Briarpatch Magazine, The Offing, and Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry (Arsenal Pulp Press), among others. She is the winner of The Capilano Review’s 2022 In(ter)ventions in the Archive Contest and the author of the chapbook Leaving Chang’e on Read (Rahila’s Ghost Press, 2022).

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