Not Here Rebecca Kling Griffin’s downward spiral continues

Griffin’s downward spiral continues

Philip Dean Walker writes with a kind of savage nostalgia

each graced with a unique and secret magical ability known as a Blessing

hidden between the lines of a history written by men

The Brazen Boys can be read in any order

Not Here Rebecca Kling Griffin’s downward spiral continuesBeing queer and Asian American; families we are born into and ones we chose; nostalgia, trauma and history all dissected fearlessly. Not Here is a flight plan for escape and a map for navigating home; a queer Vietnamese American body in confrontation with whiteness, trauma, family, and nostalgia; and a big beating heart of a book. Nguyen's poems ache with loneliness and desire and the giddy terrors of allowing yourself to hope for love, and revel in