Salvage

How do we transform the wreckage of our identities? Cynthia Dewi Okas evocative collection answers this question by brimming with what we salvage from our most deep-seated battles. Reflecting the many dimensions of the poets life, Salvage manifests an intermixture of aesthetic forms that encompasses multiple social, political, and cultural contextsleading readers to Bali, Indonesia, to the Pacific Northwest, and to South Jersey and Philadelphia. Throughout it insistently interrogates what it means to reach for our humanity through the guises of nation, race, and gender. Okas language transports us through the many bodies of fluid poetics that inhabit our migrating senses and permeate across generations into a personal diaspora. Salvage invites us to be without borders.