Dear Diaspora by Susan Nguyen Hannah Raymond-Cox Stone Fruit is Rebecca Perry’s

Stone Fruit is Rebecca Perry’s second collection

Apollinaire and Derek Jarman

to an acute awareness of the restless nature of language itself

unstoppable vanishing

Dear Diaspora by Susan Nguyen Hannah Raymond-Cox Stone Fruit is Rebecca Perry’sDear Diaspora is an unapologetic reckoning with history, memory, and grief. Parting the weeds on a small American town, this collection sheds light on the intersections of girlhood and diaspora. The poems introduce us to Suzi: ripping her leg hairs out with duct tape, praying for ecstasy during Sunday mass, dreaming up a language for buried familial trauma and discovering that such a language may not exist. Through a collage of lyric, documentary, and