A review by karis_dl
Love Speech by Xiao Xuan/ Sherry Huang

challenging emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

This is a beautiful book that blends poetry and theory. I think perhaps we're being asked to consider how we live out theory. Xiaoxuan is vulnerable and contemplative. There's this sense that the reader is encouraged to also step into that space. Reading this book feels like a practice of self-reflection in the care of another. Huang also establishes this theme of remembering, but remembering also in the present, at the moment we witness something - like an unceasing sense of longing that's its own lens. Beyond these thing, the book is also just visually really pleasing, the way the author uses space, and negative space, on the page is really lovely. If you love queer theory, if you love feeling, if you love poetry, you should read this.