Shareen K Murayama's debut collection, Housebreak is a book of wild beauty and probing enquiry. Murayama asks how we live within perennial emergency, where belonging and self-protection converge, how we explain loss to children, what the wind has in common with hate crime. These heartbreaking poems are full of dance-like grace, and gut punches that send the reader off balance. Formally artful and disruptive, they seek out the breaths between words and worlds, applying biology, etymology, astronautics and myth. There is a gentle undoing, a quiet rage here, alongside great tenderness. Housebreak is stunning, apocalyptic, revelatory.

Housebreak

Literature & Fiction

Murayama, Shareen K.

Poetry

Bad Betty Press

Shareen K. Murayama is a Japanese American, Okinawan American poet and educator. She’s a 2021 Best Microfiction winner and a poetry reader for The Adroit Journal. Her art is published or forthcoming in Pilgrimage Press, SoFloPoJo, SWWIM, The Margins, Puerto Del Sol, Juked, MORIA, and elsewhere. Her first collection of poems, HOUSEBREAK, will be published by Bad Betty Press in 2022. You can find her on IG & Twitter @ambusypoeming.

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Small Harbor Publishing

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Housebreak

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