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From the reviving joy of monsoon rains and the scorching smoke of Indian-Malaysian funeral rituals to the quiet solace of an evening garden, from the shallow seas around her homeland to the violence of Atlantic nor'easter and Pacific winter storms, Shymala Dason's Carrying the Ocean invites us into the immigrant journey. These intimate, personal poems move from the Malaysia of the writer's childhood to America and back again, pausing frequently to examine the cost and consequences of such journeys. These poems are for all who have traveled from home.

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Shymala Dason is a first-generation immigrant from Malaysia to the US, and the child of second-generation immigrants from India to Malaysia. Her poetry naturally centers on belonging and unbelonging in family and immigrant life. She has been shortlisted for the Flannery O'Connor short fiction collection award and been published in The Massachusetts Review, The Literary Review, The Margins, the Asian American Writers Workshop war anthology, Voices of the Asian American Experience, and elsewhere. She is a developmental editor for fiction and memoir. Carrying the Ocean is her poetry debut. She is @ShymalaDason on Facebook, Instagram, and Bluesky.

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