{"product_id":"entered-some-aliens-paperback-softback-9780299356347","title":"Entered Some Aliens (Paperback \/ softback) 9780299356347","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eEntered Some Aliens\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSiew Hii (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780299356347\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 30 June 2026\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e110 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 17.8 x 1.3 cm, 0.2 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Hii bends time and space, entering objects, ghosts, and trees (not to mention God’s DMs) to rewrite inherited expectations and name our human hungers.” - Rochelle Hurt\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“To read these poems is to have a zany, inventive, and heartrending conversation with a fellow galaxy roamer, and to know that in that conversation’s exquisite quirks lives the truest meaning of the word \u003ci\u003ehome\u003c\/i\u003e.” - Sumita Chakraborty\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“Woke up mumbling poems from this extraordinary collection that subverts and  subjuncts. A dynamic revelation. These poems stretch the page, stretch structure, syntax, and our collective imagination.” - Nabila Lovelace\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“There is no version of this wherein I am given the time machine and do not destroy it,” writes Siew Hii in this wide-ranging collection that offers a poet’s perspective on what it means to be a queer Asian American in the American South. Exuding wit and profound insight, Hii’s is a voice that can elicit both laughter and sober reflection within the space of a few lines. In an explosion of different styles and formats, they deliver precise, cutting observations about self, family, and strangers. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e From taking aim at Hollywood’s representations of identity, to exploring the meaning and dynamics of family, to describing their adopted home of Florida through a set of formally explosive poems, Hii makes sense of an unjust and absurd world, all the while exhibiting genuine curiosity and humor. \u003ci\u003eEntered Some Aliens\u003c\/i\u003e offers rare and powerful insight into feeling out of place and out of time.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHOMIE \u003cbr\u003e , Declared the Alien to Themself \u003cbr\u003e Go on Then \u003cbr\u003e On Hardy Street, Utopia: The Glass the Heart Hungers \u003cbr\u003e Donuts That Are Not Surprises \u003cbr\u003e Deus Ex Machina: Wonder Woman \u003cbr\u003e My Family Tree Pines with Mispronunciation \u003cbr\u003e RESISTANCE \u003cbr\u003e RESISTANT \u003cbr\u003e The Color Yellow \u003cbr\u003e Porcelain Bowl of White and Blue as Vessel for My Envy \u003cbr\u003e Entered Some Aliens \u003cbr\u003e The Heart, Mangoes, Another Heart, Night \u003cbr\u003e not her body, not her promise \u003cbr\u003e Bad Book Review of the North Star \u003cbr\u003e New New New New New South \u003cbr\u003e The Limit Does Not Exist \u003cbr\u003e help—\u003cbr\u003emy brother is a fascist \u003cbr\u003e The Waterer \u003cbr\u003e My Soul as Roots and Branches \u003cbr\u003e Upon Learning the Ending \u003cbr\u003e Ships in the Desert \u003cbr\u003e Fragments of the New Covenant \u003cbr\u003e Stencil on the Skin \u003cbr\u003e Advertisement Placed on Stained Placard for New Cookie Writer \u003cbr\u003e Eleven Romances \u003cbr\u003e , Declared the Alien to Themself \u003cbr\u003e Tomorrow’\u003cbr\u003es Sunlight in Convenient Form: Kitschy Exercises in Unnecessary Negation \u003cbr\u003e Why a Subway and Not a Railroad? Because the Railroad Was Once Considered a Technology Able to Obliterate Time and Space \u003cbr\u003e Moonlight Siphons the History of History, Including Whiteness \u003cbr\u003e at skimmed edge of another dirt road \u003cbr\u003e Twelve Questions Noir with the Ghost of Victor Sen Yung \u003cbr\u003e Fruit Agape \u003cbr\u003e On Being Born (in Mobile)(moh-BEEL) \u003cbr\u003e In My Dreams We Live in a Society \u003cbr\u003e Florida Is a Place on Earth \u003cbr\u003e On Being Born Again \u003cbr\u003e The Only Thing Actually Impossible Is Probably Catharsis \u003cbr\u003e ***Florida Is a Place on Earth*** \u003cbr\u003e Florida Is a Place on Earth^^^ \u003cbr\u003e Parasitic Expressions \u003cbr\u003e The Only Thing Actually Impossible Is Probably Catharsis Pt. II \u003cbr\u003e Honor Is Another Thing I Hope to Someday Bring My Family \u003cbr\u003e WORK SHOES AS DREAM, DREAM UNGENDER \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52530916983064,"sku":"9780299356347","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/entered-some-aliens-paperback-softback-9780299356347","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}