{"product_id":"unmothered-untongued-lyric-essays-paperback","title":"Unmothered, Untongued: Lyric Essays - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLee Horikoshi Roripaugh\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eChloé Cooper Jones\u003c\/b\u003e (Selected by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eunMothered, unTongued\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of lyric essays written from the liminal space of the in-between. These essays thread themselves around questions of language, landscape, and identity, weaving together intersectionalities and intertextualities. Author Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh, a biracial LGBTQIA+ Nisei who was born and raised in Laramie, Wyoming, to a non-native-English-speaking Issei mother, considers not only the tensions in the rifts between intersectional identities (biracial Nisei, LGBTQIA+) but also the tensions between marginalized identities and the landscapes and cultures of the American West; the tensions between nonnative, second, erased, and\/or forgotten languages; and the tensions between those who abuse and those who survive. These rifts, intersections, and fractures, while frequently a source of violence and immense grief, are also a source of illumination and clarity. The essays in this collection are written almost entirely in hybrid\/lyric forms--oftentimes braided, oftentimes patchworked, oftentimes segmented--reflecting some of the fractured complexities and intersections of Horikoshi Roripaugh's own hybrid identities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLEE HORIKOSHI RORIPAUGH (she\/they) is a biracial Nisei and the author of five volumes of poetry, most recently \u003ci\u003etsunami vs. the fukushima 50\u003c\/i\u003e, a Best Book of 2019 by the New York Public Library and a poetry finalist in the 2020 Lambda Literary Awards. Her fiction collection, \u003ci\u003eReveal Codes\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Moon City Press Short Fiction Award, was published by Moon City Press in 2023, and their chapbook, \u003ci\u003e#stringofbeads\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by Diode Press in 2023. A recipient of the Association of Asian American Studies Book Award in Poetry\/Prose for 2004 and a 1998 winner of the National Poetry Series, Horikoshi Roripaugh's poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, American Poetry Review, Story Magazine, Terrain.org, Hotel Amerika\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNorth American Review\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications. Seven of their essays have been listed as Notable Essays in \u003ci\u003eBest American Essays.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 234\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.4 x 5.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47345150755001,"sku":"9780820374413","price":41.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0686\/4309\/4713\/files\/B2QRpjbhvs9780820374413.webp?v=1780516233","url":"https:\/\/thoobo.com\/products\/unmothered-untongued-lyric-essays-paperback","provider":"Thoobo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}