Rhea Cai, Questions I’m Scared to Ask At Parties and the ongoing extractive processes

and the ongoing extractive processes that fuel those flows

and to listen with as great a depth as the seabed alongside which many of these poems were remembered and recalled

The Blackbird is a poetic scale model of the cosmos

99 Poems for the 99 Percent (99:The Press)

Rhea Cai, Questions I’m Scared to Ask At Parties and the ongoing extractive processesCai captures both the tender and the shocking, demonstrated by her ability to chart the vast and uncertain terrains of love, friendship and family against her lived experience as Chinese Australian woman. DONNALYN XU Bringing forward a luminous, intimate exploration of the Chinese Australian experience, Questions Im Scared to Ask at Parties navigates questions of femininity, desire, love, filial piety, and cultural identity. The collection draws from