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The Small Lights Of Her Hearti s a vision of a surreal transsexuality, an existence both mystical and visceral, bound both in blood and in prayer. Its poems are the numbered hopes and tears of a young trans woman desperate to exist in this world. Through monster girl rituals, transpassing subreddits, lesbian second dates, and a coming-out letter as a bird, The Small Lights Of Her Hearttakes the reader through the rhythmic life cycle of trans hope and despair. This chap is offering you her gentlest glimmers, her smallest lights. Will you accept them?
About the author
Nora Hikari (she/her) is a disabled Japanese and Chinese transgender poet, producer, and artist based in Philadelphia. She was a 2022 Lambda Literary fellow, and her work is published in Ploughshares, Gulf Coast, Foglifter, The Journal, and others. Her chapbook, GIRL 2.0 (Seven Kitchens Press, 2022) was a Robin Becker Series winner. She was a reader at the 2022 Dodge Poetry Festival and a finalist for the Red Hen Press Benjamin Saltman Award. Her chapbook Let's Burst Like Stars is forthcoming from swallow::tale press in 2024. Nora Hikari can be found at her website norahikari.com and on twitter at @system_wires
