Upend Author|Darby Nelson Say their names

Say their names

a delightful book that will instruct and amuse Paris newcomers and veterans alike — all who yearn for a taste of the flâneur's creative café lifestyle

These poems bring me back to that feeling I had when I first got skulled reading Plath as teenager in a food court at the Pheasant Lane Mall

hums with life

and taught painting and drawing at Bemidji State University in northern Minnesota

Upend Author|Darby Nelson Say their namesThe book loosely navigates the archived immigration trial of Hong On, a biracial Alaska Native Chinese man, in 1912 on Angel Island, CA during the Chinese Exclusion Act. Hong On was born in San Francisco, CA in 1895 and was orphaned shortly after. The concepts of U. S. government designated recreational spaces, genocide, and intergenerational trauma are examined by Hong On's granddaughter, the author, who sees imperialistic residue in product, place,