Beast at Every Threshold

An unflinching shapeshifter, Beast at Every Threshold dances between familial hauntings and cultural histories, intimate hungers and broader griefs. Memories become malleable, pop culture provides a backdrop to glittery queer love, and folklore speaks back as a radical tool of survival. With unapologetic precision, Natalie Wee unravels constructs of "e;otherness"e; and names language our most familiar weapon, illuminating the intersections of queerness, diaspora, and loss with obsessive, inexhaustible ferocityand in resurrecting the self rendered a site of violence, makes visible the "e;Beast at Every Threshold."e;Beguiling and deeply imagined, Wee s poems explore thresholds of marginality, queerness, immigration, nationhood, and reinvention of the self through myth.