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Praise for The Mother Who Couldn’t Describe a Thing if She Could:
Murayama’s The Mother Who Couldn’t Describe a Thing if She Could is obsessed with lineages: what mothers bequeath and what daughters are bequeathed. Sickness and health, barriers and connection, what we lose and what we gain—with prose so rich and so lyric, seeking to both uncover and understand, Murayama reveals a jeweled world where ancestors are never far and where truth is as relentless as the tide, and just as stunning.
—Jared Povanda, writer, poet, and free-lance editor
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CLMP's Poetry List 2022
Hey Girl, Are You in the Experimental Group? (Small Harbor Publishing, April 2022), poetry chapbook.
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Poetry Collection & Chapbook (2022)
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Shareen K Murayama’s debut collection, Housebreak
Bad Betty Press July 2022
is a book of wild beauty and probing enquiry. Murayama asks how we live within perennial emergency, where belonging and self-protection converge, how we explain loss to children, what the wind has in common with hate crime. These heartbreaking poems are full of dance-like grace, and gut punches that send the reader off balance. Formally artful and disruptive, they seek out the breaths between words and worlds, applying biology, etymology, astronautics and myth. There is a gentle undoing, a quiet rage here, alongside great tenderness. Housebreak is stunning, apocalyptic, revelatory.
A Review for Hey Girl, Are You in the Experimental Group? by Irene Cooper
Someone Is Going to Get Eaten
Hey, Girl, Are You in the Experimental Group?
Harbor Editions, 2022
Shareen K Murayama’s chapbook Hey, Girl, Are You in the Experimental Group? expresses a deep interest in form as well as in Cathy Park Hong’s notion that “[Asians] are reputed to be so accomplished, and so law-abiding, we will disappear into this country’s amnesiac fog.” Hong’s assertion serves as epigraph to the poems, which are anything but invisible. Click here to read the rest.
