In Jane Shi’s echolalia echolalia, commitment and comedy work together to critique ongoing inequities, dehumanizing ideologies, and the body politic. Here are playful and transformative narratives of friendship and estrangement, survival and self-forgiveness. Writing against inherited violence and scarcity-producing colonial projects, Shi expresses a deep belief in one’s chosen family, love and justice.

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“In this electric, eclectic collection, Jane Shi weaves, ducks, swerves, and composes poems like an acrobat swinging across the distance of time. The book is a virtuosic feat in bending away from, twirling, curling, unfurling from the left margin with lines that electrify. Shi is a poet unlike anyone else, and I welcome any extended stay in their worlds.”
–Diana Khoi Nguyen, author Root Fractures and Ghost Of

“An anthem for the chronically ill and chronically online, echolalia echolalia sings with the complicated queer love we need to keep other alive. These poems are tricksters of form that play rough with colonial grammar, guided by a keen eye for satire that never loses sight of the urgency for marginalized kin to survive on our own terms.”
–Rebecca Salazar, author of sulphurtongue

“echolalia echolalia left me in a state of wonder. Who are we in relation to our echoes and those who we echo? In an exuberant debut, Shi searches for definition and distinction alongside a desire to be connected and multitudinous, asking ‘how do you say help me in yr language.’ Shi extends her poetics in all directions with silky skill. Language flourishes in the realm of a poet like this.”
–T. Liem, author of Slows: Twice and Obits.