All Heathens is a declaration of ownership--of bodies, of histories, of time.
Whether rewriting the origin story of Eve ("I always imagined that the serpent had the legs of a seductive woman in black nylons"), or ruminating on what-should-have-been-said "when the man at the party s.
Revisiting Magellan\'s voyage around the world, these poems explore the speaker\'s Filipino American identity by grappling with her relationship to her family and notions of diaspora, circumnavigation, and discovery.
All Heathens is a declaration of ownership--of bodies, of histories, of time