Sundress Publications announces the release of Still My Father’s Son by Nora Hikari, an electrifying debut that intricately examines love, religious trauma, queerness, and self/selves. In Still My Father’s Son, Hikari weaves a delicate yet devastating tapestry of emotion, exploring the fractured nature of self-love and healing. The collection unfolds like a shimmering river, guiding readers through shrewd observations and aching intimacy. As the speaker declares, “Every person you have been deserves a burial and a headstone,” and the Vicious Self pleads to the Small Self, “You are loved,” the work becomes a beautiful homage to resilience and survival.
As torrin a. greathouse, author of DEED, writes: “Existing somewhere in the space between an extended ars poetica, a discourse on cruelty and kindness, and a creation myth eating itself alive, Still My Father’s Son is an electrifying debut. Hikari is a poet of high lyric and bold proclamation, a combination that hones each line to a razor’s careful edge. The kind of poet who can render the sunrise a gash across the wrist of heaven and declare that ‘A sword is a sword / because it refuses / to be anything kinder’ with the same startling candor.”
Pre-orders for Still My Father’s Son are available at: https://sundress-publications.square.site
Nora Hikari (she/her) is a disabled Chinese and Japanese transgender poet and artist based in NYC. She was a 2022 Lambda Literary fellow, and her work has been published in Ploughshares, Palette Poetry, Foglifter, The Journal, The Washington Square Review, and others. Her hybrid fiction, KISS ME FAST, was featured in Wigleaf’s Top 50 for 2023. She was a reader at the 2022 Dodge Poetry Festival. Still My Father’s Son is her first book.
