You Still Look the Same

These poems are clean, tight, wry, luscious, kvetchy and up-close-to-brown-skin. - Sonnet L'Abbe, author of Sonnet's Shakespeare In this collection, love, disappointment and possibility collide, at home and unhomed in spare, precise language. - Larissa Lai, author of Iron Goddess of Mercy These poems travel across a range of experiences, but what pulls them together is the essential yearning for connection - in defiance of pain and grief, in spite of anger, fear, exclusion and sheer human blundering. The voices here are vulnerable, imperfect, but they are bolstered by their wry wit and an irrepressible desire to embrace life and love with all its complications. - Adam Sol, author of How a Poem Moves Farzana Doctor's You Still Look The Same unfolds in filmic moments which cluster with insight, itches like the discomfort of a hard news story, yet reads with all the intimacy of confessional memoir. This is a book of observation from a keen eye for what it means to be human in the 21st century. Here is a book that invites us to see with fresh perspective what we might yet be. - Michael V. Smith, author of Bad Ideas This book is a tender tour of the love, loss, and lament that comes with the messiness of living. - Dena Igusti, author of Cut Woman