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Dear Yuri Kochiyama: We’re strangers. I’ve only met you in person once. At a crowded INCITE conference in Chicago over a decade ago, with API/A queer people, women, & trans community. I was a 20 year old shaky kid just honored to meet you. You were so fierce, humble, determined, inquisitive, and what I remember most was, deliberately compassionate. For all the years and cities and lives you grew with and shaped. For everything you witnessed & created with others. For all the work you continued to do that lives within us. Gratitude is a word that can’t hold this loss and this celebration of you enough. For the life you lived that wasn’t trying to be legacy just liberation. Sending love to those you love closest in your circle, to your family, your comrades. Thank you for your movement building— it continues!
Kay Ulanday Barrett is a poet, performer, and educator.
NEW TITLE: WHEN THE CHANT COMES
Poems from Kay Ulanday Barrett, 2003-2016
Shipping to the US and internationally now.
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About the book:
Kay Ulanday Barrett has been bringing his unique poetry to audiences for over a decade, unpicking vital political questions around race, sickness and disability and gender, and chronicling the everydayness of life in the U.S. Empire with humor, poignancy and inimitable vitality.
Now at last a generous selection of his work will be available in print. Each of these poems is a brilliant little story. Taken together, they show a master craftsman at the top of his game.
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