Saying Your Name Three Times Underwater — A Poetry Collection by Sam Roxas-Chua

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Saying Your Name Three Times Underwater by Sam Roxas-Chua (Lithic Press, paperback)

Publication Date: December 17, 2017

Publisher Marketing: Poetry. Collection of translucent, often narrative poems that float on the page and roll downstream, tumble ashore, look about, understand a bit, hop back onto the page. An old soul comes of age, in time and space these poems occur in the real place of dreams, where they yearn, and exhale. Pulitzer Prize winner, Tyehimba Jess says, “Sam Roxas-Chua’s poetry is swirling and galactic, vividly sensual, and delightfully stubborn in its refusal to entertain simple answers to queries of blood, faith, and desire. Surreal yet rooted in palpable color and history, this poet’s vision transcends oceans, blends geographies and bleeds a multi-tongued heritage for us to better find ourselves…”

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