Amphibian: Poems
Autor Joseph O. Legaspien Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 apr 2026
How does a queer brown body move through the American panorama? In Amphibian, Joseph O. Legaspi explores the metaphor of “amphibious living”—adapting, surviving, and flourishing in varying geographies—as it pertains to immigrants and to queerness. These poems draw on the natural world to illuminate personal experiences and, in turn, closely examine cultural, environmental, and societal constructs and concerns.
Legaspi searches in nature for evidence of the validity of his own existence, determined to declare his belonging. Dwelling in landscape as a guide into the interior, Amphibian journeys not only between earth, water, and air, but also into the past, cataloging an immigrant’s departures, arrivals, and returns to native soil. This moving collection is at every turn liberating, fraught, and altered.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9798899480072
Pagini: 104
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Curbstone Books 2
Pagini: 104
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Curbstone Books 2
Notă biografică
JOSEPH O. LEGASPI is the author of two previous poetry collections, Threshold and Imago, and of three chapbooks: Postcards; Aviary, Bestiary; and Subways. He works at Columbia University, teaches at Fordham University, and resides with his husband in Queens, New York.
Recenzii
Named a most anticipated poetry collection of 2026 by LitHub
“Legaspi’s Amphibian is teeming with rich musicality, aromatic imagery, and striking turns. It excels at weaving its narrative sense of recollection and its lyric sense of wonder, creating an immaculate tapestry for rendering, and reckoning with, the depths of longing. This is a true ecological mural of relational belonging.” —Geffrey Davis, author of One Wild Word Away
“Amphibian is a book of feverish wonders. Tadpoles and immigrants fall out of the sky, mothers with Cleopatra eyes melt into martyrdom, soup boils thicker than blood. Legaspi is a poet of the senses. The heat is palpable, the poems sing.” —Jessica Hagedorn,author of Dogeaters
“These exquisite poems explore what it means to be amphibious—and the malleability and alchemy required to thrive in two different terrains. Rich in imagery and cultural and familial ceremonies, Amphibian is as stunning as Legaspi’s last collection, Threshold.” —R. Zamora Linmark, author of Pop Vérité
“Legaspi’s Amphibian is teeming with rich musicality, aromatic imagery, and striking turns. It excels at weaving its narrative sense of recollection and its lyric sense of wonder, creating an immaculate tapestry for rendering, and reckoning with, the depths of longing. This is a true ecological mural of relational belonging.” —Geffrey Davis, author of One Wild Word Away
“Amphibian is a book of feverish wonders. Tadpoles and immigrants fall out of the sky, mothers with Cleopatra eyes melt into martyrdom, soup boils thicker than blood. Legaspi is a poet of the senses. The heat is palpable, the poems sing.” —Jessica Hagedorn,author of Dogeaters
“These exquisite poems explore what it means to be amphibious—and the malleability and alchemy required to thrive in two different terrains. Rich in imagery and cultural and familial ceremonies, Amphibian is as stunning as Legaspi’s last collection, Threshold.” —R. Zamora Linmark, author of Pop Vérité
Descriere
Amphibian is the third full-length poetry collection from Joseph O. Legaspi, exploring the landscapes of immigration, queerness, and survival in a world steeped in American values.