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Vanessa Huang’s first book of poems bears witness toan intimate terrain traversing pasts, presents, and futureswithin and surrounding political movements to end variousembodiments of the prison industrial complex in the2000s, California and beyond. Making refuge in diaspora,the poems in quiet of chorus inhabit and transform the poet’slanguages of heritage and migration into their own call-andresponsesyntax, inviting readers and listeners into prayer,pause, novel gesture towards freedom.

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quiet of chorus lifts up the often muffled lineages of resistance to normalized state violence in contemporary life. Huang s embodied poem-worlds stoke our yearnings for freedom and wholeness, and help enliven the path forward. Morgan Bassichis

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Born in Berkeley and home in diaspora fromCalifornia and Taipei to Atlanta, New York,and Tianjin, Vanessa Huang is a poet, artist,and cultural worker whose practice inheritsteachings from the prison industrial complex,abolition, gender liberation, and intersectingsocial justice movements over the last decade.A finalist for Poets & Writers’ 2010 CaliforniaWriters Exchange Award and the 2014 KundimanPoetry Prize, quiet of chorus is Vanessa’s firstbook of poems.

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