“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, she delivers precise, cutting observations about self, family, and strangers.

From taking aim at Hollywood’s representations of identity, to exploring the meaning and dynamics of family, to describing her 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. Entered Some Aliens offers rare and powerful insight into feeling out of place and out of time.

Siew Hii is a teacher and writer from Mobile, Alabama, who now lives in Orlando, Florida. Her parents hail from Sibu, Malaysia, and Kentucky, USA. Hii has also lived in Mississippi and North Carolina, where she completed her university studies.

HOMIE
, Declared the Alien to Themself
Go on Then
On Hardy Street, Utopia: The Glass the Heart Hungers
Donuts That Are Not Surprises
Deus Ex Machina: Wonder Woman
My Family Tree Pines with Mispronunciation
RESISTANCE
RESISTANT
The Color Yellow
Porcelain Bowl of White and Blue as Vessel for My Envy
Entered Some Aliens
The Heart, Mangoes, Another Heart, Night
not her body, not her promise
Bad Book Review of the North Star
New New New New New South
The Limit Does Not Exist
help—my brother is a fascist
The Waterer
My Soul as Roots and Branches
Upon Learning the Ending
Ships in the Desert
Fragments of the New Covenant
Stencil on the Skin
Advertisement Placed on Stained Placard for New Cookie Writer
Eleven Romances
, Declared the Alien to Themself
Tomorrow’s Sunlight in Convenient Form: Kitschy Exercises in Unnecessary Negation
Why a Subway and Not a Railroad? Because the Railroad Was Once Considered a Technology Able to Obliterate Time and Space
Moonlight Siphons the History of History, Including Whiteness
at skimmed edge of another dirt road
Twelve Questions Noir with the Ghost of Victor Sen Yung
Fruit Agape
On Being Born (in Mobile)(moh-BEEL)
In My Dreams We Live in a Society
Florida Is a Place on Earth
On Being Born Again
The Only Thing Actually Impossible Is Probably Catharsis
***Florida Is a Place on Earth***
Florida Is a Place on Earth^^^
Parasitic Expressions
The Only Thing Actually Impossible Is Probably Catharsis Pt. II
Honor Is Another Thing I Hope to Someday Bring My Family
WORK SHOES AS DREAM, DREAM UNGENDER

Acknowledgments