ESL or You Weren't Here

By Aldrin Valdez

ESL or You Weren't Here tells the story of a queer Pinoy who immigrates to New York in the 1990s in order to be reunited with their parents. What follows is the poet's awakening to the legacy of American imperialism & colonialism in the Philippines, and to the experience of living between languages, cultures, temporalities, and genders--untranslatable. ESLasks the reader to bear witness to embodied histories of forced immigration, separation and abandonment rooted in patriarchal racism.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1937658864
• ISBN13: 9781937658861
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Nightboat Books
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.8" x 8.9"