Common Grace cid_5126 and all that encompasses growing

and all that encompasses growing up trans in America today

Through the lens of the Caribbean

sweet artist-dreamer

Not only do they feel pressured to seem perfect and youthful

5" pew cards

Common Grace cid_5126 and all that encompasses growingIn 65 lyric poems organized into a triptych, Common Grace offers an important new lens into Asian American life, art, and love. Part 1, Soul Sauce, describes the poets life as a practicing visual artist, taking us from an early encounter with an inkwell at Roseland Elementary in 1969 to his professional outdoor easel perched on Long Island Sound. Part 2, Ubasute, is named after the mythical Japanese practice wherein a grown son lifts his aged mother