Language and lore are at the core of The Symmetry of Fish, a moving poetry debut about coming-of-age in the middle of nowhere. With striking and tender insight, it seeks to give voice to those who have been denied their stories, and examines the way phrases and narratives are passed down through immigrant families - not diluted over time, but distilled into potency over generations. The insist that language is first and foremost a bodily act; even if our minds can't recall a word or a definition, if we trust our mouths, expression will find us - though never quite in the forms we expect.
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Language and lore are at the core of The Symmetry of Fish, a moving poetry debut about coming-of-age in the middle of nowhere. With striking and tender insight, it seeks to give voice to those who have been denied their stories, and examines the way phrases and narratives are passed down through immigrant families - not diluted over time, but distilled into potency over generations. The insist that language is first and foremost a bodily act; even if our minds can't recall a word or a definition, if we trust our mouths, expression will find us - though never quite in the forms we expect.