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Natalie Wee

    Natalie Wee crafts poetry that delves into the intricacies of the queer Peranakan community and the complex landscape of the body. Her writing is characterized by a provocative style, exploring identity through potent and intimate imagery. Through her work, Wee seeks to foster connection and shared understanding.

    Beast At Every Threshold
    • 2022

      Beast At Every Threshold

      • 80 pages
      • 3 hours of reading
      3.7(429)Add rating

      A formidable collection of poems that deconstructs the notion of "otherness" through folklore and myth. 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 "otherness" and names language our most familiar weapon, illuminating the intersections of queerness, diaspora, and loss with obsessive, inexhaustible ferocity - and in resurrecting the self rendered a site of violence, makes visible the "Beast at Every Threshold." Beguiling and deeply imagined, Wee's poems explore thresholds of marginality, queerness, immigration, nationhood, and reinvention of the self through myth.

      Beast At Every Threshold