A Mouth Holds Many Things - by Dao Strom & Jyothi Natarajan

Book Synopsis

A ground breaking anthology that collects hybrid-literary works from 36 women and nonbinary BIPOC writer-artists, A Mouth Holds Many Things is the first book of its kind.

Review Quotes

"A Mouth Holds Many Things: A De-Canon Hybrid-Literary Collection is neither an anthology nor conventionally hybrid nor exclusively literary--it is pioneering. It is strange, it is new, and, as contributor Monica Ong writes in her poem, 'Indigo Insomnia, ' it is 'still forming between the lungs.'"-- "Full Stop"

"A Mouth Holds Many Things: A De-Canon Hybrid- Literary Collectiondemonstrates an approach to hybrid literature that moves beyond mere genre-crossing, finding an exploded space that taps image, performance, nature, insomnia, and binary code as extended methods of writing."-- "BOMB"

About the Author

Dao Strom (Editor)
Dao Strom is an artist who works with three "voices"--written, sung, visual--to explore hybridity and contemplate the intersection of personal and collective histories. Using practices of polyvocality, fragmentation, and (re)assemblage, Strom writes arrangements of poetry, music, image, song and sound, to be experienced as performance, installation, multimedia, recordings, and inside the spaces of a book. Strom is the author of a bilingual poetry/art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else, (Hanoi: AJAR, 2018), a hybrid-form memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, with song-cycle, East/West, and two books of fiction. She is a recipient of a 2016 Creative Capital Award and a 2020 Oregon Literary Arts Career Fellowship. She has received support from RACC, Precipice Fund, Oregon Arts Commission, NEA, and others.

Jyothi Natarajan (Editor)
Jyothi Natarajan is an editor, writer, and cultural worker and has collaborated with Dao Strom as part of De-Canon since 2021. She spent nearly a decade working at the Asian American Writers' Workshop, where she edited the digital literary magazine The Margins and helped to establish The Margins Fellowship for emerging writers. Jyothi now works as Program Manager at Haymarket Books, where they administer a fellowship program for writers impacted by carceral systems. They are the recipient of the 2017 Wai Look Award for Outstanding Service to the Arts and, with Dao, are part of the 2023-24 IPRC re/source residency. Having grown up in Southern Virginia, Jyothi is now based out of Portland, Oregon.