Overview

“There is no version of this wherein I am given the time machine and do not destroy it,” writes Siew Hii in this wide-ranging collection that offers a poet’s perspective on what it means to be a queer Asian American in the American South. Exuding wit and profound insight, Hii’s is a voice that can elicit both laughter and sober reflection within the space of a few lines. In an explosion of different styles and formats, they deliver precise, cutting observations about self, family, and strangers. From taking aim at Hollywood’s representations of identity, to exploring the meaning and dynamics of family, to describing their adopted home of Florida through a set of formally explosive poems, Hii makes sense of an unjust and absurd world, all the while exhibiting genuine curiosity and humor. Entered Some Aliens offers rare and powerful insight into feeling out of place and out of time.

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Author:   Siew Hii
Publisher:   University of Wisconsin Press
Imprint:   University of Wisconsin Press
Weight:   0.200kg
ISBN:  

9780299356347

ISBN 10:   0299356345
Pages:   110
Publication Date:   31 March 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

HOMIE , Declared the Alien to Themself Go on Then On Hardy Street, Utopia: The Glass the Heart Hungers Donuts That Are Not Surprises Deus Ex Machina: Wonder Woman My Family Tree Pines with Mispronunciation RESISTANCE RESISTANT The Color Yellow Porcelain Bowl of White and Blue as Vessel for My Envy Entered Some Aliens The Heart, Mangoes, Another Heart, Night not her body, not her promise Bad Book Review of the North Star New New New New New South The Limit Does Not Exist help—my brother is a fascist The Waterer My Soul as Roots and Branches Upon Learning the Ending Ships in the Desert Fragments of the New Covenant Stencil on the Skin Advertisement Placed on Stained Placard for New Cookie Writer Eleven Romances , Declared the Alien to Themself Tomorrow’s Sunlight in Convenient Form: Kitschy Exercises in Unnecessary Negation Why a Subway and Not a Railroad? Because the Railroad Was Once Considered a Technology Able to Obliterate Time and Space Moonlight Siphons the History of History, Including Whiteness at skimmed edge of another dirt road Twelve Questions Noir with the Ghost of Victor Sen Yung Fruit Agape On Being Born (in Mobile)(moh-BEEL) In My Dreams We Live in a Society Florida Is a Place on Earth On Being Born Again The Only Thing Actually Impossible Is Probably Catharsis ***Florida Is a Place on Earth*** Florida Is a Place on Earth^^^ Parasitic Expressions The Only Thing Actually Impossible Is Probably Catharsis Pt. II Honor Is Another Thing I Hope to Someday Bring My Family WORK SHOES AS DREAM, DREAM UNGENDER Acknowledgments

Reviews

“Hii bends time and space, entering objects, ghosts, and trees (not to mention God’s DMs) to rewrite inherited expectations and name our human hungers.” - Rochelle Hurt “To read these poems is to have a zany, inventive, and heartrending conversation with a fellow galaxy roamer, and to know that in that conversation’s exquisite quirks lives the truest meaning of the word home.” - Sumita Chakraborty “Woke up mumbling poems from this extraordinary collection that subverts subjuncts. A dynamic revelation. These poems stretch the page, stretch structure, syntax, our collective imagination.” - Nabila Lovelace

""Hii bends time and space, entering objects, ghosts, and trees (not to mention God's DMs) to rewrite inherited expectations and name our human hungers.""--Rochelle Hurt

Author Information

Siew Hii is a teacher and writer from Mobile, Alabama, who now lives in Orlando, Florida. Their parents hail from Sibu, Malaysia, and Kentucky, USA. Hii has also lived in Mississippi and North Carolina, where they completed their university studies.

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