Mix-Mix

By Dani Putney

In Mix-Mix, Dani Putney excavates facets of their mixed-race heritage using reformulated text from the "Asian Romance Guide to Marriage by Correspondence" to consider their relationships with their Filipina mother and late white father, problematizing--but also attempting to understand--the circumstances that led to their parents' marriage across two continents via mail correspondence. In addition, the collection puts queerness and non-binary identity into conversation with heritage, invocations of pop-culture icons, reflections on the speaker's daddy issues, and general explorations of queer sexuality. In Mix-Mix Putney seems to ask, "Why were we born? How do we live with the circumstances of our birth, both historically and culturally?"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1936097567
• ISBN13: 9781936097562
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Baobab Press
• Length: 97 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"