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Anstruther Books
An imprint of Palimpsest Press
Cover image by Yen Ha
Praise for Precedented Parroting
"The rhythms here are layered, propulsive and fragmented: thoughts that don’t require beyond the clipped phrase to be fully formed....There is incredible power in this collection, this debut, as subtlely held as it is immense." (Full review + interview)
—rob mclennan, author of On Beauty
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"Each poem in Precedented Parroting is a singular, sublime murmuration, their words swooping, shape-shifting, and thrumming with life."
—Monique Truong, author of The Sweetest Fruits,
Bitter in the Mouth, and The Book of Salt
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"The rhythms and soundscapes in Precedented Parroting are virtuosic. They make me think of waves or air currents that memory, narrative, relationship, and emotion are set loose on. Feathers are composed of barbs, as loss is, observes Tran in the early pages of this book, one implication being that, like feathers, loss can both enable and necessitate flight. An immensely powerful, clear-eyed account of harm, dislocation, and survival through generations."
—River Halen, author of Dream Rooms
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