"Blueprints" is finding language for a homeland, the songs of our parents.
It is a recollection of grief, and how a people emerge from mourning one day, one breath at a time. As much as these poems honor the author's Taiwanese-American heritage, they are also an invitation into crossing bridges: to celebrate and fight for the tribes adjacent, surrounding us all along. Through endless cups of shay in the Middle East, conversations during suhoor, the dancing on secluded rooftops:  Grief is a storm we weather together.

Cover art by Dianuh Aerin Gundersen.

Featured in the LA County Library and Taiwanese-American.org