FOR ANIMAL USE ONLY - poems by Arumandhira

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"Arumandhira constructs an idiosyncratic voice that both howls and rasps. Startling images and musicality reveal the violence and softness the body's subjected to in the world she creates and grounds with specificity and personal family history. For Animal Use Only is a striking debut from a poet to watch."
- Jessica Abughattas, Author of Strip

"Arumandhira's For Animal Use Only is irreverent and explosive. This collection represents the dilemma of queer Blasian femmes who defy categorization in a world that threatens us with systems of neat boxes. Like the ouroboros, Arumandhira's speaker would rather auto-cannibalize than bend to the many oppressors that deem her "Other." These cross-cultural poems come at a defining moment for multiracial writers; this is no trend, this is a hostile takeover. Standing before 'a monument of found objects hot-glued together by fluorescent pink potential,' Refusing to be 'a fossil in a museum,' she grabs the reader by the throat and lets us know she can throw ass and build a revolution all at the same time."
- Dr. Rita Mookerjee, Author of False Offering